Wheel and Steal av Paul Paxton

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<p>The Cohen family live in Austria at the time of its annexation by the Nazis. It¿s a time of despair and terror. Wealthy and Jewish, they face both financial ruin and imprisonment if they don¿t form a plan. In an underhanded move, they agree to hand over their extensive and much prized art collection in return for a free passage to neutral Switzerland. Underhanded because the paintings are actually fakes, painted by Anna Cohen¿s talented boyfriend¿</p><p>Some seventy-five years later, one of the original Gauguin¿s <em>Tahitian Princess</em>, is discovered in an old lock up in Tuscany. This presents a real problem for the art dealer who had knowingly sold the fake to a Ukrainian businessman of ill repute; particularly as his painting was now very much on display at an Impressionist exhibition. What can he do about that?</p><p>Insurance investigator Roger Kirtley is present when the exhibited painting is stolen. His suspicions are raised when he notes another purported theft of the <