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Headlong a novel

Philosopher Martin Clay unwittingly stumbles upon a long-lost, masterpiece painting. Now, Clay is determined to swindle the painting from its owner and overcome his financial entanglements.

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  • "Philosopher Martin Clay unwittingly stumbles upon a long-lost, masterpiece painting. Now, Clay is determined to swindle the painting from its owner and overcome his financial entanglements."@en
  • "Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has found one of the world's long-lost great treasures. His find could make his professional reputation, and even a lot of money, too. But at once the difficulties begin: the treasure he has found is in someone else's possession and to get his hands on it he needs to set up a classic sting."
  • "Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his scrupulous art-historian wife are invited to dinner by a boorish local landowner to assess the value of three dusty paintings moldering in the freezing breakfast room. But blocking the soot from the chimney is nothing less, Martin believes, than one of the world's lost treasures, camouflaged by misattribution and the grime of centuries. Thus begins a wild trail of lies and concealments, soaring hopes and sudden panics, as Martin embarks on an obsessive quest to prove his hunch, separate the painting from its owner, and resolve one of the great mysteries of European art."@en
  • "Hapless would-be art historian Martin Clay, believes he has found an art treasure that has been lost for centuries. Recognising an opportunity to further his career as well as make a lot of money if he can retrieve it, he must set up the classic sting; however his task seems impossible. Clay soon finds himself drawn step by step, into a moral and intellectual labyrinth."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY. Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he had found one of the world's long-lost great treasures. His find could make his professional reputation - and a lot of money too. But the treasure he has found is in someone else's possession and to get his hands on it he needs to set up a classic sting. To finance this he has to mortgage his family's future and, to justify to his increasingly alarmed wife the risks he is taking, he has to find some evidence to support his first brief flash of intuition - container."
  • "Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his scrupulous art-historian wife find themselves enlisted to assess the value of three dusty paintings moldering in the freezing breakfast room."
  • "Martin Clay, a young would-be artist historian, believes he has found one of the world's long-lost great treasures. His find could make his professional reputation - and even a lot of money, too. But at once the difficulties begin."
  • "A British comedy in which academic Martin Clay is asked by a boorish country squire to assess his paintings. Clay spots what he suspects is a Bruegel and so begins a tale of lies and concealment as he schemes to separate the painting from its owner."@en
  • "Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his scrupulous art-historian wife find themselves enlisted to assess the value of three dusty paintings moldering in the freezing breakfast room. But blocking the soot from the chimney is nothing less, Martin believes, than one of the world's lost treasures, camouflaged by misattribution and the grime of centuries. There it is: Martin's new distraction. So begins a wild trail of lies and concealments, soaring hopes and sudden panics as Martin embarks on an obsessive quest to prove his hunch, win over his wife, separate the painting from its owner, and resolve one of the great mysteries of European art. Martin's increasingly desperate scheme turns out to involve betting all that he owns and much that he doesn't."@en
  • "Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his scrupulous art-historian wife find themselves enlisted to assess the value of three dusty paintings moldering in the freezing breakfast room. But blocking the soot from the chimney is nothing less, Martin believes, than one of the world's lost treasures, camouflaged by misattribution and the grime of centuries. There it is: Martin's new distraction. So begins a wild trail of lies and concealments, soaring hopes and sudden panics as Martin embarks on an obsessive quest to prove his hunch, win over his wife, separate the painting from its owner, and resolve one of the great mysteries of European art. Martin's increasingly desperate scheme turns out to involve betting all that he owns and much that he doesn't."
  • "Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has found one of the world's long-lost great treasures. His find could make his professional reputation, and even a lot of money too. But at once the difficulties begin: the treasure he has found is in someone else's possession and to get his hands on it he needs to set up a classic sting. To finance this he has to mortgage his family's future and, to justify to his increasingly alarmed wife the risks he is taking, he has to find some evidence to support his first brief flash of intuition.--Container."

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