Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery ...
 Simple Crime, Complex Background: Unholy Business is the story of a simple fraud that unfortunately takes place in so complex a milieu that no book-length treatment can adequately prepare a reader to make the kinds of judgments invited by the author. [... more]
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The Lost Painting
Author: Jonathan Harr Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 759.5 EAN: 9780739313947 Edition: Unabridged Format: Unabridged ISBN: 0739313940 Number Of Items: 6 Publication Date: 2005-10-25 Release Date: 2005-10-25 [... more]
$29.95
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The Art Forger's Handbook
a good introduction to art forgery for fun and profit....: Hebborn certainlly knew his stuff and succeeded in selling many of his "creations" through dealers such as London's Colnagi. If you are interested in the nuts and bolts of forging old [... more]
$35.00
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Fake: Forgery, Lies, & eBay
something for everyone: My son picked "Fake" for our mother/son book club. The boys are sixteen; the mothers work in a variety of professional fields. No one was bored. Everyone finished the book, which is unusual. Discussion was lively and [... more]
$21.95
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The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted ...
Great Book: Have been waiting for some time to read this book, and I really enjoyed it. Of course I like art-related mysteries and other stories anyway. I'll be looking for other titles by this author. Important, interesting subject, worth slogging [... more]
$16.95
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The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs ...
Amazon.com Review: In Stalinist Russia, it was commonplace for Soviet history to be rewritten with inconvenient participants removed--often men or women who had aided the Communist Revolution in the early days and then had somehow fallen afoul of Stalin [... more]
$35.00
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Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis: A Gallery of ...
Rachlin's true tales, continued...: Having enjoyed Harvey Rachlin's other books about the stories behind historical figures and artifacts, I was anxious to get into his latest--about intrigues involving the world's art masterpieces. I was not [... more]
$14.00
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The Lost Painting
Author: Jonathan Harr Binding: Audio Cassette Dewey Decimal Number: 759.5 EAN: 9780553714920 Edition: Abridged Format: Abridged Format: Audiobook Format: Unabridged ISBN: 0553714929 Number Of Items: 4 Publication Date: 2005-10-25 Release Date: 2005-10-25 [... more]
$26.95
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I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth ...
A Fascinating Account: This is a very interesting and well-written account of the "great" (if that word can be applied to a crook!) art forger Han van Meegeren, who during and before WWII made himself about $100,000,000 (in today's money) by [... more]
$24.95
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Fakes and Forgeries: The True Crime Stories of History's ...
Art history student review: The book is very well researched with lots of pictures, clear explanations and covers a lot of topics, my problem was that I was interested in painting forgeries and there are very little of this here. If your interest is [... more]
$26.95
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The Lost Painting
A worthy second book: Some authors with a best seller under their belts have been content to pump out a series of books in a similar vein. Jonathan Harr seems to be following a different path, good for him. Published ten years after A Civil Action, an [... more]
$15.00
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of ...
Good story, great read.: I like to read widely in non-fiction, especially in art history and history, but I'm no expert; so I often consult the reviews of other readers. In that spirit, I want to recommend this book I recently finished. The Man Who Made [... more]
$26.00
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