The third novel by the well-known English writer David Dickinson, about the adventures of Lord Powerscourt.
The Victorian era is still in full swing: the English are fighting the Boers, while the “new Americans” who made huge fortunes from oil and railroads want to join European culture. One after another they travel to London for paintings by old Italian and English masters to decorate their luxurious mansions. Enterprising merchants eagerly “sell” fakes to the poorly educated Americans…
And then the entire London art world is shaken by the news of the murder of a famous critic, a specialist in Renaissance painting. Who needed to kill a scholar? Who benefited from his death?
Only Lord Powerscourt can answer all these riddles. And helping him, as always, are his loving wife, Lady Lucy, and his loyal friend Johnny Fitzgerald…