num_pages: 198
description: Over a period of twenty years a series of highly elaborate art hoaxes have been perpetrated at carefully time intervals and in each case the victim has a very good reason for keeping quiet. Inspector Appleby's interest is kindled by an amusing dinner-party anecdote - when he enlists the help of his wife and son the ensuing investigation is truly a family affair. The scenes shift swiftly between glorious stately homes and the not-so-glorious art gallery of the irrepressibly dubious Hildebert Braunkopf.
language: English
title: A Family Affair
publisher: House of Stratus