More of a psychological case study than a mystery, this tale of revenge should be of considerable interest to book people.

Death By Publication

Literature & Fiction

Fiechter, J.J.

Literary

Arcade Publishing

Sir Edward Destry, head of a distinguished publishing house in London, has been friends with his most successful author, the dashing French war hero Nicolas Fabry, for thirty years. Over time, though, Sir Edward’s admiration for his friend has soured into envy. When Fabry publishes a new novel in France that rockets to the top of the bestseller list and wins the country’s most prestigious literary prize, Sir Edward plunges into grief and fury. Fabry’s fiction is no fiction. Its heroine is modeled on the only woman Sir Edward ever loved—and for whose tragic suicide Destry took the blame. Now he discovers it was Fabry who was responsible for her death, and he abandons her. With precision and passion, Sir Edward plots his revenge. He translates Fabry’s novel into English and devises a plan guaranteed to cause disgrace, ruin, and—death by publication. Darkly comic and masterfully plotted, Death by Publication, which won France’s most prestigious detective fiction award the year it was published, is an inspired exploration of obsession, betrayal, and fraud—a gripping page-turner that is as thought-provoking as it is stylish.

Death by Publication: A Mystery

A wickedly ingenious thriller involving a lost masterpiece and a plot to use it for revenge.Charles Vermeille is the world’s expert on seventeenth-century French master Claude Lorrain, one of the most copied painters in history. Handsome, self-assuredarrogant, some might even sayand a model of probity, Vermeille has the last word on Lorrain’s works; he determines which are authentic, which are fake. Upon his pronouncements rests not only his own reputation but also those of museums, collectors, and auction houses around the world. Millions of dollars can be at stake. When Vermeille begins receiving photographs of his adored son in the mailno demands, no threats, only photoshe begins to suspect a connection between them and his bankable appraisal of Lorrain’s paintings, one of which, believed lost, has just miraculously turned up. Is someone forcing him to choose between his reputation and the life of his son? Everyone has his enemies. Art appraisers have more than their fair share.Set in a world where inflated egos, high art, and big money intersect, A Masterpiece of Revenge is a classic psychological mystery.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

A Masterpiece of Revenge: A Mystery

Arcade

The focus of this volume is the history of identifying forged antiquities, as well as the identification of the great forgers, such as Oxan Aslanian, the "Berlin Master", who deceived many a curator and collector during the first half of the 20th century. A selection of more than 200 characteristic examples of Egyptian works of which the falseness has been mostly recognized rounds out the present volume.

Faux Et Faussaires En Art Egyptien (Monumenta Aegyptica) (French Edition)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Brepols Pub

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Death By Publication

Death by Publication: A Mystery

A Masterpiece of Revenge: A Mystery

Faux Et Faussaires En Art Egyptien (Monumenta Aegyptica) (French Edition)