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Headlong

A knife-edge thriller/farce about a missing Bruegel masterpiece and its rightful custodians.' Independent Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, suddenly sees opening in front of him the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to perform a great public service, and at the same time to make his professional reputation - perhaps even rather a lot of money as well. Thus he finds himself drawn step by step into a moral and intellectual labyrinth.

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  • "A knife-edge thriller/farce about a missing Bruegel masterpiece and its rightful custodians.' Independent Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, suddenly sees opening in front of him the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to perform a great public service, and at the same time to make his professional reputation - perhaps even rather a lot of money as well. Thus he finds himself drawn step by step into a moral and intellectual labyrinth."@en
  • "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. By the author of Now You Know."@en
  • "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. By the author of Now You Know."
  • "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
  • "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."
  • "When a local down-on-his-luck landowner asks Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, to value some paintings, Clay suddenly sees the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to perform a great public service, and at the same time to make his professional reputation - perhaps even rather a lot of money as well. Believing one of the paintings to be a missing masterpiece he hatches a plot to bring the picture into his own possession. As Clay stumbles headlong into the moral and intellectual labyrinth of his own devious plan, things start to go badly out of control..."@en
  • "Een man denkt een schilderij van Bruegel bij zijn buurman ontdekt te hebben en doet van alles om het in handen te krijgen."
  • "Invited to assess some old paintings, a young art historian is convinced that one of them is a lost work by Breugel. He risks everything he has in his efforts to establish its provenance and then trick it from its owner."

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  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Roman anglais"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Translations"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Authors' autographs (Provenance)"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Humorous stories"

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  • "La Trampa maestra"
  • "Headlong"@en
  • "Headlong"
  • "Over hals og hoved : roman"@da
  • "Paraphora"
  • "Das verschollene Bild : Roman"
  • "Одержимый"
  • "Po hlavě"
  • "La trampa maestra"@es
  • "La trampa maestra"
  • "Na oślep"@pl
  • "Na oślep"
  • "A testa bassa"
  • "A testa bassa"@it
  • "Oderzhimyĭ"
  • "Pretmakers in een berglandschap"
  • "Headlong : a novel"@en
  • "Headlong : a novel"
  • "Tête baissée : roman"
  • "Päistikkaa"@fi
  • "Das verschollene Bild Roman"
  • "Tête baissée"
  • "Head-long"

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