Stealing the Scream: The Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
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One morning in 1994, two men in a stolen car skid to a halt in front of Norway s National Gallery. Minutes later, they roar off with Edvard Munch's iconic, tortured, best-known work. In desperation, Norwegian police call on the world s greatest art detective Scotland Yard s enigmatic, irascible, brilliant Charley Hill. The hunt for The Scream will either cap his career or end in a fiasco that will dog him forever An utterly captivating read (City AM), Stealing the Scream is a thrilling tale of the hunt to recover a $72 million masterpiece. [Protagonist] Hill regards art crime as serious farce and that s just how Dolnick plays it, with journalistic verve, in this enjoyable book. Guardian.
Author: Edward Dolnick
Format: Paperback, 272 pages, 129mm x 198mm
Published: 2008, Icon Books, United Kingdom
Genre: True Crime
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One morning in 1994, two men in a stolen car skid to a halt in front of Norway s National Gallery. Minutes later, they roar off with Edvard Munch's iconic, tortured, best-known work. In desperation, Norwegian police call on the world s greatest art detective Scotland Yard s enigmatic, irascible, brilliant Charley Hill. The hunt for The Scream will either cap his career or end in a fiasco that will dog him forever An utterly captivating read (City AM), Stealing the Scream is a thrilling tale of the hunt to recover a $72 million masterpiece. [Protagonist] Hill regards art crime as serious farce and that s just how Dolnick plays it, with journalistic verve, in this enjoyable book. Guardian.
Stealing the Scream: The Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece