false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166900973m/18332.jpg 478558 2 <p>In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's <em>The Scream</em>, and fled with their $72 million trophy. The thieves made sure the world was watching: the Winter Olympics, in Lillehammer, began that same morning. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the world's greatest art detective, a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill.</p> <p>In this rollicking narrative, <b>Edward Dolnick</b> takes us inside the art underworld. The trail leads high and low, and the cast ranges from titled aristocrats to thick-necked thugs. Lord Bath, resplendent in ponytail and velvet jacket, presides over a 9,000-acre estate. David Duddin, a 300-pound fence who once tried to sell a stolen Rembrandt, spins exuberant tales of his misdeeds. We meet Munch, too, a haunted misfit who spends his evenings drinking in the Black Piglet Café and his nights feverishly trying to capture in paint the visions in his head. The most compelling character of all is Charley Hill, an ex-soldier, a would-be priest, and a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm. The hunt for <em>The Scream</em> will either cap his career and rescue one of the world's best-known paintings or end in a fiasco that will dog him forever.</p> 466991 28 6 2005 The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece total:192|5:37|4:81|3:63|2:8|1:3| 192 717 323 57 4 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 06:56:03 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 06:56:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Dec 12 20:38:23 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 16 13:28:55 -0800 2009 Scream theft.

This time out, though, the compendium aspects outweigh the central thread, and by a long shot. The real v...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 20:04:17 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 15:08:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 16:59:24 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 14:36:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Jul 06 03:33:58 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 03:34:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 08 04:01:08 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 04:04:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 20 19:02:50 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 19:04:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 24 00:49:44 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 00:52:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jan 19 12:13:28 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 30 20:07:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Aug 03 11:25:18 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 11:26:17 -0700 2007 Down the Great Unknown). The book lost much of its punch through digressions, and the style didn't seem particularly compelling.

I read this prior to going to Norwa...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 12:50:11 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 12:55:49 -0700 2009 The occasional tidbit about the psychology of cops & robbers was probably the best feature of the book.
Often there's not m...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 29 10:10:42 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 10:17:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 20:40:11 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 09:05:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 07:14:50 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 08:07:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 27 18:34:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 18:36:57 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat May 09 21:44:11 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 21:49:33 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Mar 23 19:04:55 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 19:06:00 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 17:01:30 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 22:45:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 08 12:34:45 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 08 12:54:03 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 10 11:32:47 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:33:47 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=18332