The Last Judgement

by IainPears (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.50

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.50

  When Jonathan Argyll agrees to transport the Death of Socrates from a gallery in Paris to its new owner in Rome, he has no idea that such a worthless, nondescript painting could cause such as stir. This art history mystery is from the author of An Instance of the Fingerpost .

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $14.35

  Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, `An Instance of the Fingerpost'.

  Paris can do strange things to a man's mind... like making him agree to an apparently harmless favour of escorting a picture to Rome.

  `The Death of Socrates' is a particularly nondescript piece, so art dealer Jonathan Argyll can sympathize when its recipient refuses to accept delivery. But in an unusual twist, the same man is found dead a few hours later. Surely the painting wasn't that bad?

  Now caught up in a murder investigation, Jonathan recalls an attempt to steal the artwork while he was at the train station. Could this be the killer? The bodies start piling up and Jonathan must uncover the dark wartime secret at the heart of the mystery - before someone puts him out of the picture for good.