- Hardcover: 199 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co (April 1986)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684185741
- ISBN-13: 978-0684185743
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.2 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #926,197 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
A Tim Simpson mystery is a glimpse into the rarefiedand sometimes dangerousworld of international art collecting. In his third adventure, Simpson, an art investment consultant to a British bank, receives a letter from Mme. Boiteau, an elderly, impoverished Frenchwoman, asking him to authenticate and perhaps purchase a work by Rodin that is in her possession. When he arrives at her home in the suburbs of Paris, however, he catches two hoodlums in the act of ranksacking the house and attacking Mme. Boiteau and her young niece, Jacky. Simpson quickly foils the thugs, but Mme. Boiteau dies as a result of her injuries. This leaves a question as to whether or not the Rodin work really existed, and Simpson's relentless pursuit of the truth begins to make a lot of people uncomfortableand violent. The narrative is burdened with unnecessarily detailed descriptions of the international finance and art worlds, and readers may find rugged two-fisted fighter Simpson also priggish, smug and unsympathetic. But Malcolm writes with confidence and his mise-en-scene has snob appeal.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Newgate Callendar, Mar 12 2008
By John M. Andrews - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gwen John Sculpture (Hardcover)
Newgate Callendar in the New York Sunday Times crime reviews of June 8, 1986, wrote 'Of the many mystery writers who base their stories on art, John Malcolm is one of the best. (This book) follows previous form ...Malcolm weaves all the strands with a sure, graceful hand. He is an urbane writer who never seems to srtike a false note in his prose. His dialogue is natural-sounding, his writing never forced. The Gwen John Sculpture, with its tension and mounting suspense, serves as a fine reminder that a good writer can deliver an absorbing action story without resorting to heavy breathing anad strenuous heroics.'
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