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Title Statement | The black painting / Neil Olson. |
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Author | Olson, Neil, 1964- |
Publication | Don Mills, Ontario: Hanover Square Press,[2018]©2018 |
Extent of Item | 313 pages ; |
ISBN | 1335953817 9781335953810 |
Other Number | 3236733 |
Summary | An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursed. There are four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive, hard-drinking sister Audrey; and Teresa, youngest and most fragile, haunted by the fear that she has inherited the madness that possessed her father. Their grandfather summons them to his mansion at Owl's Point. None of them have visited the family estate since they were children, when a prized painting disappeared: a self-portrait by Goya, rumored to cause madness or death upon viewing. Afterward, the family split apart amid the accusations and suspicions that followed its theft. |
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By Topic | Cousins--Fiction |
Painting--Fiction | |
Art thefts--Fiction | |
Murder--Fiction--Investigation | |
Family secrets--Fiction | |
By Name | Goya, Francisco,1746-1828--Self-portraits |
By Genre | Mystery fiction |