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Painted ladies : a Spenser novel

Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.

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  • "Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen."@en
  • "Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen."
  • "Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen."
  • "Hired by a museum to provide protection during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting, Spenser is personally outraged when the ransom fails and the painting is not recovered, a case that makes him suspect the innocence of the art scholar who retained him."@en
  • "Spenser had a simple job-protect an art scholar during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. No one was supposed to die. But the scholar had secrets no one knew, and uncovering them will endanger Spenser as well."@en
  • "Hired by a museum to provide protection during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting, Spenser is personally outraged when the ransom fails and the painting is not recovered, a case that makes him suspect the innocence of the art scholar who retained him."
  • "In Spenser's end is his beginning. In this posthumously published novel (Parker died in January), the Boston PI tries to retrieve a priceless work of art and deals with the rarefied and nasty world of academics, as he did in his very first caper, The Godwulf Manuscript (1973). Thirty-seven novels later, Spenser can still nail a person's foibles on first meeting, still whip up a gourmet meal in a few minutes, still dispatch the thugs who haunt his office and his home, and do it all while maintaining a fierce love of Susan Silverman and English poetry (which he quotes frequently and always to good effect). The plot this time spins off from Spenser's shame over the murder of a client, a college art professor who asked him to provide backup during a delicate ransom exchange for a rare seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Spenser, ever true to his modern day chivalric code, cannot let himself off the hook for the professor's death. His investigation unveils the professor's avocation as a sexual predator of coeds, and it digs deeply into both the world of art theft (reaching back to Nazi thefts of great European works). Halfway through this thoroughly entertaining mystery, Parker writes a perfect valedictory for the much-loved Spenser: "Sometimes I slew the dragon and galloped away with the maiden. Sometimes I didn't. . . . But so far the dragon hadn't slain me." Long live Spenser. --Connie Fletcher --This text refers to the Hardcover edition."
  • "Spenser puts his life in danger after he fails his assignment to protect the person responsible for handing over ransom money for a stolen painting and decides to track down the thieves and retrieve the masterpiece on his own."@en
  • "Hired by a museum to provide protection for a stolen painting, Spenser is personally outraged when the ransom fails and the painting is not recovered, a case that makes him suspect the innocence of the art scholar who retained him."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Detektivní romány"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Mystery"
  • "Mystery"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories, American"
  • "Detective novels"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction, American"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Painted ladies : a novel"
  • "Painted ladies [sound recording]"
  • "Painted ladies : a Spenser novel"@en
  • "Painted ladies: a Spenser novel"@en
  • "Malované dámy"
  • "Painted ladies"@en
  • "Painted ladies"
  • "Trügerisches Bild ein Auftrag für Spenser"
  • "Painted Ladies"
  • "Painted Ladies #38 (new)"@en
  • "Painted ladies (A Spenser novel ; bk. 39)"@en

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