The Schiele Slaughters: A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel - Couverture souple

Comini, Alessandra

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1632930250 ISBN 13 : 9781632930255

Editeur : Sunstone Press, 2015

Synopsis

Retired art history professor Megan Crespi, an expert on the Expressionist artist Egon Schiele, is called to Vienna to help solve the brutal murder of a museum night watchman whose naked cadaver was propped up in the same pose as the nude self-portrait by Schiele above him. A series of attacks relating to Schiele occur, ranging from "censoring" of his nude figures' private parts with spray paint to desecration of his burial site. Amid restitution lawsuits and murderous competing gallery owners, Megan's investigations are endangered by the fanatical Grand Master of a secret sect dedicated to the obliteration of obscenity. Her own life in danger, the twisting Schiele trail leaves multiple corpses in its wake and leads Megan from conniving Vienna to remote Kaliningrad in Russia, to ancient Krumau in Bohemia, and bustling Milan in Italy as she hunts for a possible hidden trove of major Schiele paintings. What she discovers is undreamt of and leaves the Schiele world stunned and covetous. Includes Readers Guide.

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À propos de l'auteur

Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Alessandra Comini was awarded Austria's Grand Medal of Honor for her books on Viennese artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Her "Egon Schiele's Portraits" was nominated for the National Book Award and her "The Changing Image of Beethoven" is used in classrooms around the country, both now from Sunstone Press. Her travels, recorded in the memoir, "In Passionate Pursuit," extend from Europe to Antarctica and are reflected in this, her second mystery novel in the Megan Crespi Mystery Series. The other titles in the series, Killing for Klimt, The Kokoschka Capers, The Munch Murders, The Kollwitz Calamities, The Kandinsky Conundrum, The Mahler Mayhem, The Beethoven Boomerang, The Brahms Bust, and The Schumann Shaming, are also from Sunstone Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sunstone Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1632930250
• ISBN 13: 9781632930255
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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