The Bellini Card: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0374110395
- ISBN-13
- 9780374110390
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-03-03
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Jason Goodwin
Description
Sent to investigate rumors that a stolen art masterpiece has resurfaced in Venice, eunuch detective Yashim delegates negotiations for the work's return to Polish ambassador Palewski; in an unexpectedly dangerous case with dies to the alluring Contessa d'Aspi d'Istria. By the author of The Janissary Tree.
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