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Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent encounters a sealed ancient Tibetan box while on a luxury ocean liner's maiden voyage.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
With the help of FBI Special Agent Connor Shields, archaeologist Daria McGowan probes the disappearance of some priceless ancient artifacts, and discovers that many of the private collectors who bought them illegally have met brutal, bizarre ends.
Author
Series
School for dukes volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a priceless relic is stolen from the British Museum, archaeologist India Rochester must team up with Daniel Bonds, the Duke of Ravenwood, the antiquities hunter who broke her heart, to find the artifact and save her career.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The last way antiques dealer Lina Townend wants to spend a summer's afternoon is helping at a church fête. However, Robin, the vicar, is an old friend, so Lina ends up selling bric-a-brac. But a harmless event turns into a crisis when someone tries to steal a tatty old snuff box. Tatty it might be, but it's valuable enough for the would-be thief to attack Griff, her dear mentor, to frame Lina for a crime, and to kill an old friend. And maybe other...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Antiques dealer Lina Townsend spots a dead body in a field and calls the police, only for it to promptly vanish. Then she is accused of stealing two Anglo-Saxon rings. No one seems to believe she's innocent of either murder or theft.
Author
Publisher
Publishers Group UK [distributor]
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Mara Coyne's new client has left her uneasy. Republican kingmaker Richard Tobias has hired her, he says, because of her skill in recovering stolen art and advocating for the rightful owners, but Mara senses that he is not telling her everything. Tobias reveals that a centuries-old map was stolen from an archaeological dig he is sponsoring in China, and he wants her to get it back. But as Mara begins her investigation, she uncovers the shocking truth:...
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Danny McNamara is a former FBI agent specializing in stolen arts and antiquities. Lexi Vaziri is a resourceful art thief who is haunted by the tragic loss of her father, which she blames on Danny. When terrorist Karim Farouk absconds with a priceless artifact and kidnaps Danny's mentor Dr. Anna Castillo, Danny recruits Lexi to help him bring Farouk to justice and rescue Anna. As they chase down Farouk, they encounter unscrupulous individuals who may...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
While the world is waiting breathlessly for archaelogists to break into a long-hidden vault beneath the Great Sphinx, student Macy Sharif discovers that a religious cult is already raiding the site, looking for a map to the lost Pyramid of Osiris. Threatened by the cult, she seeks help from the American archaeologist, Nina Wilde. Nina and her husband, ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, go on a treasure hunt from the streets of Manhattan to a yacht off...
13) The codex
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"Greetings from the dead," declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing, along with his entire collection, from his mansion in New Mexico. At first, robbery is suspected, but the truth proves far stranger: As a final challenge to his three sons,...
18) The oracle
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 11
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 533 A.D., the last Vandal ruler in North Africa consults an oracle on how to defeat the invading Byzantine army. The oracle tells the king that a high priestess cast a curse upon the Vandal Kingdom after a sacred scroll was stolen. In order to lift the curse, the scroll must be returned to its rightful home. But the kingdom falls before the scroll is found, leaving its location a great mystery until a current day archaeological dig, funded by...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Years after an ancient Phoenician statue is stolen from the Baghdad museum, a series of murders sparks interest in the statue's relevance in Austin and Zavala, who lead the NUMA team on a historical investigation into the lost treasures of King Solomon.
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