Aharon Ben-Shahar
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"Greed. Obsession. Betrayal. And a masterpiece of a murder. When a body is discovered at the New York Museum of Modern Art, lying directly beneath Van
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Gogh's renowned Starry Night, the perplexing murder sends shockwaves through the art world. But when the murder victim turns out to be a famous international art restorer, the unanswered questions turn into a full-blown mystery. Piece by piece, the late restorer's life comes to light--including a secret kept hidden from the world's most prestigious museums. Who, really, was the murder victim? Who would want him dead--and why? And which of the two identical pieces of Starry Night, half a world apart, is the authentic Van Gogh? The baffling case stumps investigators, throwing the art industry into a frenzy of conspiracies involving a ring of infamous Russian art smugglers, an art-loving real estate tycoon, and a collection of replicas so perfectly true to their originals that not even expert art restorers can tell them apart"--Back cover.
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