"The Riddle of Raphael" is a novel by the well-known British writer and art historian Ian Pearce, author of a series of art detective novels and many books and articles about the history of art. "The Riddle of Raphael" is a novel that tells, above all, the story of the adventures of a painting. When a canvas is worth sixty million dollars, anything can happen to it: it gets forged, stolen, cut up, smuggled, sold at auction, burned, and even used as a weapon in behind-the-scenes power struggles among museum officials...