Painting In The Dark

RUSSELL JAMES

Publication: The Do-Not Press Ltd, 2000, London

First edition. Fine in dust jacket. An unscrupulous art dealer is convinced that 85 year-old Sidonie Keene is hiding a small hoard of her notorious sister's valuable oil paintings. Naomi was a British Nazi in the 1930s and a friend of both Hitler and Goering, she spent the war years in Germany. After the Allied victory she was denounced as a traitor and died in obscurity. But her long-forgotten paintings became collector's items , rarely offered on the market and commanding astronomical prices.The art dealer and his assistant are making plans to steal the paintings from the old lady, little realising there is more to Sidonie than meets the eye.

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