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Is Fred on some kind of killer treasure hunt? \u003cbr\u003eArt dealer and painter Kilmer delights in mirroring comtemporary crimes with well-researched and compelling use of history. 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Irreverent . . . witty . . . the erudite but down-to-earth Fred is a treasure.--New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003eArriving from Paris in Boston's Logan airport, Fred Taylor, agent for eccentric art collector Clayton Reed, unwittingly grabs a smuggled treasure flung into the air by a dying passenger.\u003cbr\u003eNot until much too late does Fred understand that the treasure -- a medieval work of art whose subject is Lazarus -- is in his hands. And now he must undertake to discover the identity of the work, as well as of its smuggler and its rightful owner. At the same time (for word gets out, and fast) he must fend off the increasingly aggressive attentions of both institutional and private collectors--not least among them his own employer Clayton Reed.\u003cbr\u003eFred's search leads to an encounter with the life work, and the sudden death, of the self-proclaimed subversive landscape artist Jacob Geist. During five days of golden autumn, the race to identify, and to account for the treasure, takes us back six hundred years, through the blood and torment of this century to the treasure's origin during the Hundred Years War. Throughout we are haunted by the seductive sweetness of the prevailing genius of Jacob Geist.\u003cbr\u003eAs usual, Kilmer delights in skewering the pretensions of the art world while constructing a brain teaser.\u003cbr\u003eKilmer's artful depiction of local color puts him in a category with the early work of Robert B. Parker, whose quick word pictures of people and places captured New England character.--Boston Herald\u003cbr\u003eA deft and compelling use of historical crimes that mirror the felonies in decorous present-dayMassachusetts vaults Fred's fourth adventure (Dirty Linen) up into the league of Iain Pears's art-history whodunits. --Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003eFred Taylor's four previous art mysteries (Henry Holt) are published in paperback ($14.95 each) by Poisoned Pen Press: Harmony in Flesh and Black (1-890208-47-7); Man with a Squirrel (1-890208-39-6); O Sacred Head (1-890208-48-5); Dirty Linen (1-890208-53-1).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49701733138705,"sku":"CIN1890208809G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53142802432273,"sku":"CIN1890208809VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1890208809.jpg?v=1751412904"},{"product_id":"place-in-normandy-book-nicholas-kilmer-9780805039306","title":"A Place in Normandy","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49790354522385,"sku":"CIN0805039309G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326016717073,"sku":"CIN0805039309VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0805039309.jpg?v=1751201338"},{"product_id":"harmony-in-flesh-and-black-book-nicholas-kilmer-9781890208479","title":"Harmony in Flesh and Black","description":"Savvy art expert Fred Taylor, factotum for a wealthy Beacon Hill collector too refined -- and too paranoid -- to do his own legwork, enjoys an odd but well paid life acting on Clayton Reed's whims.\u003cbr\u003eReed suspects that there may be a Vermeer worth millions concealed under a boring landscape coming up for auction. Fred, more interested in chasing an independent Cambridge librarian than pursuing Old Masters, finds his mission to get the Vermeer derailed by Reed's purchase of an unsigned nude from a down-and-out photographer of pornography who is subsequently rubbed out in his sleazy studio.\u003cbr\u003eWith various vultures circling -- including the Boston PD -- Fred is thrust into detection in order to score the painting, if it exists, and escape jail. His biggest obstacle is to pry the truth out of his own employer.\u003cbr\u003eFred's cases continue in Man with a Squirrel, O Sacred Head, and Dirty Linen. 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A decapitated corpse has been found alongside an Italian religious painting of the 17th Century. The body is clearly for the moment that of a John Doe, but can Fred identify the painting? Its subject is \"Christ in Agony.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Though Reed warns Fred to stay away from the Baroque's fascination with martyrdom if he values his sanity, Fred is hooked by the mystery. Fighting a snowstorm paralyzing Boston, he researches the picture's provenance and establishes it is supposed to have miraculous properties. He also comes to suspect it makes up part of a collection of Old Masters being hawked around town that may all be fakes. If it's a fake, can it work any modern miracles? 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This time the cache is an improbable portfolio of erotica purchased clandestinely at a seaside auction, and protecting it leaves collector Clayton Reed mired deep in the seamy underbelly of a Fall River brothel  The pictures may illuminate the dark side of a major artist. Shades of Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. \u003cbr\u003eReed and his scholarly man Friday, Fred Taylor, provide the best mystery tandem this side of Nero Wolfe and Archie, matching wits with a well-etched, mixed cast of villains from both country-club and peerage. This is Kilmer at full throttle, a work with characteristic panache. \u003cbr\u003e--Larry A. 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