The Bellini Card

The Bellini Card

Investigator Yashim travels to Venice in the latest installment of the EdgarÂ® Awardâ€“winning author Jason Goodwinâ€™s captivating series
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Jason Goodwinâ€™s first Yashim mystery, The Janissary Tree, brought home the EdgarÂ® Award for Best Novel. His follow-up, The Snake Stone, more than lived up to expectations and was hailed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review as â€œa magic carpet ride to the most exotic place on earth.â€ Now, in The Bellini Card, Jason Goodwin takes us back into his â€œintelligent, gorgeous and evocativeâ€ (The Independent on Sunday) world, as dazzling as a hall of mirrors and utterly compelling.
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Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan, AbdÃ¼lmecid, has heard a rumor that Belliniâ€™s vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly asked to investigate, butâ€”aware that the sultanâ€™s advisers are against any extravagant repurchase of the paintingâ€” decides to deploy his disempowered Polish ambassador friend, Palewski, to visit Venice in his stead. Palewski arrives in disguise in down-and-out Venice, where a killer is at large as dealers, faded aristocrats, and other unknown factions seek to uncover the whereabouts of the missing Bellini.
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But is it the Bellini itself that endangers all, or something associated with its original loss? And why is it that all the killerâ€™s victims are somehow tied to the alluring Contessa dâ€™Aspi dâ€™Istria? Will the Austrians unmask Palewski, or will the killer find him first? Only Yashim can uncover the truth behind the manifold mysteries.
Country USA
Manufacturer Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber new-Nov09usbook-2017-c034353
ReleaseDate 2009-03-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780374110390

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	new-Nov09usbook-2017-c034353
ReleaseDate	2009-03-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780374110390

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