The Forger, the Killer, the Painter and the Whore
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He worked quickly and with precision, and when he had finished he made sure that nothing was left to give him away. When he finally left the Weir Gallery the temperature was nearing ninety degrees inside, the cold of the winter day shocking as he moved into the street.
The murders would unnerve the London, New York and Berlin art world. Seven years earlier two other gallery owners had been killed in Berlin, in the same manner, and no one – neither the investigator brought into the case nor the police – had caught the murderer. For years the killer had been silent, but now, as the news of the missing paintings became public, he had become active again.
And like the last time in Berlin, no one had any idea who the murderer was.
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It would take one man, Gil Eckhart, to piece together the relevance of the missing paintings, a secret association between dealers in London and Berlin and the stolen Caravaggios – to uncover a labyrinthine, bloodied plot which encompassed the globe.
Now read the whole story in The Caravaggio Conspiracy.
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