Old dogs
By: Donna Moore
Publisher: Busted Flush Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781935415244
Subjects: Museums; Sisters; Older women; Theft from museums; Thieves; Fiction
Description: La Contessa Letitzia di Ponzo and her sister Signora Teodora Grisiola are not who they might seem. Now in their seventies, theyre actually Letty and Dora, a pair of ex-hookers turned con-artists whove decided to steal a pair of gold, jewel-encrusted Tibetan shih tzu dog statuettes from a Glasgow museum. Unfortunately, it seems everyone wants to get their hands on the expensive pooches. Theres the dodgy chauffeur, a pair of delinquents who work in a crematorium, an out-of-work insomniac bent on revenge, and an innocent young islander whos obsessed with returning the dogs to Tibet. And yet the elderly con-artists might just manage to execute their plan and live the rest of their lives in the lap of luxury. Thats if they can avoid the Australian hitman with his sights on a very different future for them.
Notes: "A Busted Flush Press paperback original"--Title page verso.