The Bernini Bust (Art History Mystery Series #3)

by Iain Pears

Overview

British art historian Jonathan Argyll is in sunny Los Angeles conducting some profitable business with the Moresby Museum. Then the museum's owner is murdered and a Bernini bust disappears. And while awaiting the arrival of his friends from the Italian National Art Theft Squad, Jonathan finds himself targeted by the killer...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425191897
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/04/2003
Series:	Art History Mystery , #3
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.22(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.73(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Iain Pears was born in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian, and a television consultant in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of seven highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects, as well as the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost He lives in Oxford, England.

Hometown:

Oxford, England

Date of Birth:

1955

Education:

Ph.D., Oxford University

Editorial Reviews

As charming as its title-well paced, witty, and full of details that speak to [Pears's] training as an art historian.

San Diego Union-Tribune