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The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
Author: Martin Page
A fictionalized account of the real-life theft from the Louvre museum in Paris in 1912 of Leonardo da Vinci's painting, Mona Lisa. The protagonists are an aristocratic Argentinian who masterminds the operation, his assistant who is a painter good at forgery, and a crippled urchin who is the actual thief.
ISBN-13: 9780394532837
ISBN-10: 039453283X
Publication Date: 8/1984
Pages: 189
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Publisher: Pantheon Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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In The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa, Martin Page has written a interesting thriller about the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris, 1911. The story begins in the private railroad car of J.P Morgan who hires Adam Worth, the 20th century's most accomplished thief to steal the Mona Lisa. Worth's plan begins with him staging his death in London, going to the jungles of the Amazon, and finally to Paris. He has to outwit the French authorities, international art experts, Pinkerton detectives and J.P Morgan himself.
This book was a fun quick read.


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