num_pages: 330
description: Max Mather is 35, good looking, has a way with women, enjoys his leisure, can cook up a storm, and is repaying the attentions lavished on him by an Italian millionairess by serving as archivist on her family's collection of manuscripts - a not-quite-kept man. Upon her death, his patroness leaves Max his choice of a memento to be selected from the family holdings, whereupon he picks a wrapped package containing two Raphael originals - well beyond what she or the family would intend, if they knew about them!To avoid a legal battle, he sets out to mask his ownership and have the works "discovered". Big-time collectors, dealers and auctioneers are drawn into Mather's game. In trying to out-deal the deal-makers, he becomes involved in the tangled web surrounding the brutal murder of a Manhattan artist, whose creativity extended from the canvas to the bedroom. The two stories intertwine in a fast-paced tale of intrigue and murder in the international art trade.
language: English
title: Masterclass
titlecomplete: Masterclass
characters: Hugh Loredon, Leonie Danziger, Gisela Mundt, Pia Palombini, Henri Berchmans, Claudio Palombini, Edmund Bayard, Madeleine Bayard, Harmon Seldes, Camilla Dandolo, Anne-Marie Loredon, Max Mather, Niccolo Tolentino, George Munsel, Alois Liepert
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Art, Crime
ratings_count: 211
places: Tuscany, Switzerland, Florence, Tuscany, New York City, New York
publisher: St Martins Pr