Buy this book on-line CLEIFE, PHILIP: : The Pinchbeck Masterpiece - A Novel of Forged Art and Real MurderLONDON.MACMILLAN,1970. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,though a small diagonal clip to top corner of ffe,but no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour illustrated upper wrap, publisher review for another author's recently published crime novel to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and lightly aged, fore-edge brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean.Bright,clean,blue cloth boards with black ink,stamped letters to spine/backstrip and clean,plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11 -221pp [paginated] includes half-title+ title pages,contents list/table,author's note,42 chapters,and 2pp blanks to rear.
The painting and marketing of a fake Salvador Dali lead to double murder.But the extraordinary twists and turns of Philip Cleife's very gay and ingenious first novel give his story a special place in fiction about contemporary art faking. On an illicit holiday in Spain with his mistress Katey,Martyn Finch is kidnapped by bizarre and complicated means.The gang that markets the forgeries needs his services:he is a competent painter of aeroplanes and cloudscapes,and they have in mind that his gift for putting precise photographic detail in oils will be useful in 'creating' an early Salvador Dali.Finch is 'persuaded' to paint the picture.
This is a story of such complexity and ingenuity,with so many forces and interests cunningly balanced against each other,that we can say nothing more about the plot without giving away secrets.There are surprises in every chapter and splendid confrontations such as that between Finch and the American millionaire and picture collector,Hudson D. Friedlander II.
Throughout his adventure Martyn is accompanied (mostly) by Katey,one of the most delightful girls to grace the pages of a contemporary thriller.With its knowledge of painting (and forgery) and flying,its settings in Spain,Ibiza and New York,and its marvellous spinning plot, this is an exciting and outstandingly readable first novel.
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