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      The Immaculate Deception

      by Iain Pears
      Published
      Oct 2000
      Main Genre
      Historical Mystery Hist. Mystery
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      272
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      Jonathan Argyll Book 7

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      For newlywed and Italian Art Theft Squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over when a painting, borrowed from the Louvre and en route to a celebratory exhibition, is stolen. Desperate to avoid public embarrassment--and to avoid paying a ransom--the Italian prime minister leans hard on Flavia to get it back quickly and quietly.

      Across town her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, begins an investigation of his own tracing the past of a small Renaissance painting--an Immaculate Conception--owned by Flavia's mentor, retired General Taddeo Bottando. Soon both husband and wife uncover astonishing and chilling secrets, and Flavia's investigation takes a sudden turn from the search for an art thief to the hunt for a murderer.

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Historical Mystery Police Procedural

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      Women Sleuths

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      First Edition Oct 2000 Pocket ISBN13 9780743422086 ISBN10 0743422082
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      Jul 2001 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780006511113 ISBN10 0006511112
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      Nov 2000 Scribner ISBN13 9780743212571 ISBN10 0743212576
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      May 2001 Thorndike Pr ISBN13 9780786232574 ISBN10 0786232579
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