In this seventh installment of the Pup Detectives graphic novel series, the sleuths must foil an art heist!In the world of priceless paintings, one name threatens to huff and puff and steal all the art in Pawston: the Big Bad Woof! With Rider busy with his new, mysterious friend, Vicky Crown, Rora takes the lead in sniffing out the notorious art thief. Can she and the Pup Detectives stop an art heist and save Rider from a friendship that could leave him framed?
The Art of the Steal tells the story of several larger-than-life figures - the billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman in the art world, Dede Brooks; and the wily British executive
FRAMED? Jessica’s art-viewing Italian vacation is interrupted by a pair of gunmen who steal a painting and kill a retired police officer in the process. Agreeing to help identify the crooks should th
The world--famous former con artist and bestselling author of Catch Me if You Can now reveals the mind--boggling tricks of the scam trade--with advice that has made him one of America's most sought--a
When the evil Kroc hatches a plan to steal the Earth's water, Plastic Frog sets out to track him down and return the bodies of water to their rightful places.
Art galleries and casinos, mansions and brothels, billionaires and thieves―only James Patterson could create a triple-cross this decadent and suspenseful.Imagine everyone’s surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart’s Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. 24 hours later and still no one has seen him.Release the hounds. A massive search ensues. But when Carter’s sailboat rolls in with the tide without him or anyone else on it, the worst seems to be confirmed. He really did it . . . Or did he? The one person convinced he’s still alive is his father, Mathias von Oehson, founder and CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund. But what Mathias knows and how he knows it would ultimately reveal a secret so damaging that it would be as if he were committing suicide himself. There’s no way he can go to the police. But there’s still someone he can turn to.Dylan now finds himself wrapped up in multi-million-dollar secrets and danger and it
While on vacation in Italy, Jessica joins a tour that takes her to where lesser-known Italian masterworks are displayed-and where a pair of young Italian gunmen steal a painting off a church wall, k
In this book, Hector Feliciano reveals the story of the systematic pillaging of Jewish-owned artwork during World War II. Between 1939 and 1944, the Nazi occupation of France enabled Germany to confi
"Art is theft," Picasso once proclaimed. The wily old Spaniard was being provocative – he often equated theft to what could more benignly be called influence. But increasingly much of the best a
Features 100 images for you colour: the heroes, villains and vehicles of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Set before Star Wars: A New Hope, it follows a rag-tag group of rebel commandos who must steal th
If movies teach us anything, it's that art theft involves glitz, glamour, and above all else, sophistication. Movies lie! In reality, art robberies often involve people who don't know anything about t
Having the incredible good fortune of being born, as he says, in "interesting times," T.T. Liang has lived through a century that included two world wars and the decline of the Ching dynasty through t
Take a dreamy walk down Moonlight Lane. Stroll along the boulevard in Paris, City of Lights. Steal a moment of quiet and solitude in the Hidden Gazebo. Each monthly spread of this calendar features a
How to Steal the Mona Lisa offers a step-by-step guide for the craft of high stakes thievery. The author meticulously describes seven heists that range from stealing priceless art, such as the &qu
The mysterious player Morte has manipulated the human guilds into fighting BOTH side of the Elf War! While Kirito challenges him to a duel, Asuna has an important task of her own: steal the battle pla
Return to Detritus with FM, Alanik, and Jorgen in this must-have three-novella collection featuring exclusive character art and deleted scenes from Skyward with commentary from Brandon Sanderson.Return to the planet Detritus—humanity’s final refuge from the hostile Galactic Superiority government. In Skyward, Spensa Nightshade became a starfighter pilot in the Defiant Defense Force’s Skyward Flight to battle Superiority forces. In Starsight she impersonated the alien Alanik to infiltrate a Superiority space station and steal their hyperdrives. And in Cytonic she traveled the strange dimension of the Nowhere to discover the secrets of the planet-destroying Delvers and unlock her own Cytonic powers. As she is stuck in the Nowhere, Spensa’s companions FM and Jorgen in Skyward Flight are left on Detritus with a new mandate: figure out how to use the hyperdrives so that humanity can escape the planet and find allies among other species oppressed by the Superiority. First comes a
