Title: Painted ladies
Description: Hired by a museum to provide protection during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting, Spenser is personally outraged when the ransom fails and the painting is not recovered, a case that makes him suspect the innocence of the art scholar who retained him.
Subjects: Art thieves, Private investigators, Investigation, Spenser (Fictitious character), Art thefts, Fiction, nyt:mass-market-paperback=2011-10-02, New York Times bestseller, Spenser (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Boston (mass.), fiction, Crime, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Criminals, fiction
Places: Massachusetts