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Series
Publisher
Charles Scribner's
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
It is the kind of news that would normally send champagne corks flying at the Seattle Art Museum. A famous French art collector wants to give the museum an original Rembrandt! So why isn't Chris Norgren, curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art, smiling? Perhaps because the gift seems too good to be true. And there are conditions that make Chris nervous: The collector is the elderly Rene Vachey, one of the world's more controversial eccentrics. The...
42) Broken dishes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Description
In the latest installment, Benni Harper uncovers the remains of a murdered man buried in a shallow grave at a friend's struggling dude ranch. Now, she must keep the guests safe and happy while unearthing the truth behind the terrible crime.
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Language
English
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Description
"Scarlett Fontaine is a true Hollywood legend—a singer, actress, and beloved fashion icon. But Scarlett dies tragically at just thirty-six years old, leaving behind no children. Or so the story goes… Gwen Hollingsworth is the curator at a museum dedicated to Scarlett’s life. She’s also sole heir to Scarlett’s fortune as a descendant of the star. But all is not well in Gwen’s world. She’s dealing with a messy marital separation and is...
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Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Description
The eighth installment in this cozy mystery series features Daisy Dalrymple at the Museum of Natural History, a place of fascination-and murder. In the summer of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple makes what should be an uneventful research trip to the Museum of Natural History quite an eventful day-with her nephew Derek and her soon-to-be stepdaughter Belinda in tow. But as she interviews the various curators for her article on the museums of London,...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Benni Harper, a curator of the local folk art museum and amateur detective, is the star of this best-selling Agatha Award-winning series. Her talent for finding trouble surfaces in an unlikely place-her own church. While helping her grandmother direct the children's musical, Benni finds the beaten body of the church handyman. Soon, other mysteries compel her to investigate, despite the warnings from her husband Gabe, the chief of police.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In New York, the opening night of a Botticelli art exhibition is attended by Isobel Cattaneo, direct descendant of the woman Botticelli used as a model for his famous painting, The Birth of Venus. For curator Mike Manship her presence is a major coup, but a killer is on the loose and he is after her.
50) High adventure
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Kirby Galway may be a low-level marijuana smuggler in Belize, but the man has a dream-to make lots and lots of money. So when a local official offers him a back-jungle tract of land he swears would make a perfect cattle ranch, Kirby jumps at the opportunity. Unfortunately, he lands himself in a swamp-that he now owns. Kirby begins selling homemade "artifacts" from his property to American museums and witless tourists, even building a fake ancient...
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Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
As collections curator for Old World Wisconsin, Chloe Ellefson delights in losing herself in antiques and folk traditions-and forgetting her messy love life. But her peace is destroyed when her ex-boyfriend unexpectedly turns up, followed by a break-in at her friend Dellyn's historic house-a potential treasure trove of priceless antiques. Was the intruder hunting for the missing Eagle Diamond, a legendary gemstone unearthed in 1876? When a grisly...
52) The golden child
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
Penelope Fitzgerald's novel, The Golden Child, combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London's most refined institution-the museum. When the glittering treasure of ancient Garamantia, the golden child, is delivered to the museum, a web of intrigue tightens around its personnel, especially the hapless museum officer Waring Smith. While prowling the halls one night, Waring is nearly strangled. Two suspicious deaths ensue, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Solitude at last! Museum curator Chloe Ellefson jumps at the chance to spend time on Wisconsin's Rock Island, a state park with no electricity or roads. Hired as a consultant for a project to restore the island's historic 1857 lighthouse, her research turns up fascinating tough-as-nails women from the past. Chloe's tranquility is spoiled when a dead woman washes ashore. Is it an accidental drowning? Or has tension over tighter fishing regulations...
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Chris Norgren, museum curator and Renaissance art expert, heads to Berlin to assist in mounting a sensational exhibit: The Plundered Past?twenty priceless Old Masters looted by the Nazis, thought for decades to be lost forever, and only recently rediscovered. But things quickly get out of hand when Chris?s patrician, fastidious boss, after sensing a forgery in the lot, turns up dead the very next day?on the steps of a dismal Frankfurt brothel, of...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Being chased by cults, a maniac, and the sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, cephalopod specialist Billy Harrow inadvertently learns that he holds the key to finding a missing squid--a squid that just happens to be an embryonic god whose powers, properly harnessed, can destroy all that is, was, and ever shall be.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway, is found inside a locked vault used to store delicate and rare books. Richmond homicide detective Felicia Stone and Trondheim police inspector Odd Singsaker find themselves working on...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The second ten sensational part season of Riviera sees Georgina focused on trying to get away with murder as she gets to retain power within the Clios household and her position at the top of the elusive art world. This intoxicating drama is full of sun, sex, sea, fast cars, fast living, chateaus and everything that says the glamour of the rich and powerful. Picking up immediately from the shocking ending of season one, with the Clios family still...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of engaging exhibits that share those discoveries with students and an enthusiastic general public. At the heart of it all from the very start have been curators. Yet after three decades as a natural...
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