The Da Vinci deception
By: Thomas Swan
Edition: 1st William Morrow paperback ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781557049681
Copyright date: 1990
Subjects: Art dealers; Art forgers; Jack Oxby (Fictitious character); Forgeries; Painting; Fiction
Description: A group of Anglo-American forgers produce a sketch of the Mona Lisa, supposedly by Leonardo da Vinci and nearly get away with selling it. The man who busts the plot is John Osby, a British police officer on the art and antiquities squad.