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Billionaire Heyward Bain, who arrives in New York with
a glamorous assistant, announces plans to fund a fine print museum, and with
the help of an unlikely buyer, pays record prices for prints. Coleman,
intrigued, plans to get to know Bain, and publish an article about him.
Dinah hopes to sell him enough prints to save her gallery. Swindlers,
attracted by Bain's lavish spending, invade the print world to grab some of
his money.
Bain's buyer, the
oily Simon Fanshawe, raises both women's hackles. He works for a fabled
London gallery specializing in Renaissance Art, and knows nothing about
prints. Why does Bain employ him? And why do so many of the prints Fanshawe
buys for Bain have murky histories?
When a print dealer dies in peculiar circumstances, Coleman is suspicious,
but she can't persuade Robert Mondelli, the art crime investigator working
with the police, of a connection between the dealer's death and Bain's
buying spree. After one of Coleman's writers is killed and Coleman is
attacked, Mondelli must acknowledge the connection, and Coleman becomes even
more determined to discover the truth.
Coleman learns what Heyward Bain is hiding, and uncovers the secrets of
others who have reinvented themselves. In a final violent scene, Coleman
risks her life to expose the last deception threatening her, her friends,
and the formerly tranquil print world.
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