Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland. Until people started stealing their paintings...Of all the canvases at Russborough, it was Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid that most caught the public's imagination. Twice stolen, once by an IRA sympathiser and then by notorious gangster Martin Cahill, it risked being lost from view forever, unless the Garda, together with Scotland Yard and some seasoned international art detectives, could contrive the perfect sting...
Matthew Hart tells the riveting story of the theft and recovery of some of the world's most important art, finding new leads and unexpected connections in the mysterious underworld of international art crime.
| ISBN: | 9780099474579 |
| Publication date: | 2nd June 2005 |
| Author: | Matthew Hart |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 220 pages |
| Genres: |
True crime History |
Vermeer, Goya, Rembrandt, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland.
The Irish Game features in the following genres: True crime, History
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The Irish Game was written by Matthew Hart and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
The Irish Game has 220 pages