Portrait of a Dead Model
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Portrait of a Dead Model
9.99 €
In Moscow, young women are disappearing under strange circumstances. Not celebrities, not fashion models, not bankers' daughters—but saleswomen and cleaning ladies, unattractive, overweight, with failed love lives. They are later discovered in their apartments, lifeless, with signs of strangulation with a thin cord. And on the bodies of each victim, experts find ancient sketches signed in French "Ingres."
Ingres is the name of the master of French neoclassicism. But how could the original sketches for the brilliant painting "Turkish Baths" end up in the squalid Khrushchev-era buildings on the outskirts of Moscow? After all, all the sketches for this great painting should be in the famous artist's birthplace, the Ingres Museum in Montauban! The Paris prefecture investigates and… discovers a substitution. The murder case of the young women escalates into a crime of international proportions. A sophisticated killer plays a deadly game with the detectives, where they must piece together a puzzle piece by piece to unravel the connection between the dead Russian girls and the French idol, the legendary artist Ingres...
Daria Dezombre's detective stories are distinguished by subtle intrigue, mystical secrets, and a detailed exploration of history, culture, and art. Dezombre works meticulously on each new book. Reconstructing the past, she reads memoirs, spends many hours in libraries and museums, and collects photographs of clothing and objects from past eras from family albums and magazines.
Ingres is the name of the master of French neoclassicism. But how could the original sketches for the brilliant painting "Turkish Baths" end up in the squalid Khrushchev-era buildings on the outskirts of Moscow? After all, all the sketches for this great painting should be in the famous artist's birthplace, the Ingres Museum in Montauban! The Paris prefecture investigates and… discovers a substitution. The murder case of the young women escalates into a crime of international proportions. A sophisticated killer plays a deadly game with the detectives, where they must piece together a puzzle piece by piece to unravel the connection between the dead Russian girls and the French idol, the legendary artist Ingres...
Daria Dezombre's detective stories are distinguished by subtle intrigue, mystical secrets, and a detailed exploration of history, culture, and art. Dezombre works meticulously on each new book. Reconstructing the past, she reads memoirs, spends many hours in libraries and museums, and collects photographs of clothing and objects from past eras from family albums and magazines.
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