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The Raphael Affair by Iain Pears

The Raphael Affair

By Iain Pears

By Iain Pears

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Part of Art History Mystery

Paperback $15.00

Feb 01, 2001 | 272 Pages

The Raphael Affair by Iain Pears
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Feb 01, 2001 | 272 Pages

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About The Raphael Affair

“Deliciously literate” (Kirkus Reviews) and filled with “articulate characters and erudite art commentary” (The New York Times Book Review), this acclaimed series of novels by Iain Pears combines art and history, literature and mystery fiction, with the same passion for detail he displayed in his New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. In The Raphael Affair, the first book in the series, we are introduced to Jonathan Argyll, an enthusiastic young art scholar from England who has followed his suspicions about a long-lost Raphael painting to a small church in Rome. Not only is the painting in question gone from the site, it has been swiftly purchased, restored, auctioned, and installed in Rome’s National Museum. But when the recovered Raphael is just as swiftly destroyed in a fire, Argyll begins to suspect its authenticity…and the innocence of every person in its path.

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About Iain Pears

Iain Pears is the author of the bestsellers An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio, Stone’s Fall, and Arcadia, and a novella, The Portrait, as well as a series of acclaimed detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial and… More about Iain Pears

Product Details

Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

Paperback | $15.00
Published by Berkley
Feb 01, 2001 | 272 Pages | 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780425178928

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Praise

“Masterful and calls for an encore.”-Houston Post

“Impressive.”-The (London) Times

“[A] clever thriller…Pears balances politics, love and danger nicely in a plot that has a cunning and satisfactory outcome.”-Sunday Times

“Presents a world the author knows well in the satisfying way Margaret Truman and Dick Francis set their mysteries in milieus they know.”-Associated Press

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