Book 1998

Da Vinci deception

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Publisher: Newmarket Press
Language: English
Published: 1998

Art dealers
Art forgers
Fiction
Forgeries
Jack Oxby (Fictitious character)
Painting
Great britain, fiction
Fiction, crime

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.