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Persis Willum Mystery #2
Bishop in the Back Seat
In The Bishop in the Back Seat, Persis takes a reluctant leave from her art gallery to serve as board member of the troubled Waldheim Museum.
- GenresMystery
160 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1980
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Clarissa Watson
15 booksClarissa Hanson Watson. Author, Art Gallery Director and resident of Glen Cove, Long Island, Sassetot-le-Mauconduit (Normandy), France and formally of Upper Brookville and Westbury, LI.
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March 12, 2018
Dreadful. Flat silly characters, little engagement with anyone, ridiculous plot. Terrible.
September 11, 2007
(Incidentally, I read the 1980 hardcover edition, not the paperback). This is a fairly good mystery set in a newly
opened art museum in a very upscale community on Long Island.
The heroine has a very wealthy aristocratic aunt but herself is a working painter trained as an art historian. Through a circle of wealthy art-collecting friends, she is involved in a exhibition at the museum at which a Rembrandt portrait is stolen. This leads to further compiications and several deaths. Ultimately she discovers this theft is related to a series of art thefts which have been going on since World War II, when a convoy of art from Antwerp vanished on its way to France. Overall, I thought it well written (as one would expect, the writer, who really does manage an art gallery according to the blurb, does nice descriptions of both people and art).The only serious problem I had with it
is that the villain is described as being in his 50s in a book published (and apparently set) in 1980, yet he is supposed to have been entrusted with running a major project for saving European art from the Nazis in 1940, when he would have been a teenager. I could believe he was one of the young student volunteers involved in the project, but not that he was the man in charge at that age.
opened art museum in a very upscale community on Long Island.
The heroine has a very wealthy aristocratic aunt but herself is a working painter trained as an art historian. Through a circle of wealthy art-collecting friends, she is involved in a exhibition at the museum at which a Rembrandt portrait is stolen. This leads to further compiications and several deaths. Ultimately she discovers this theft is related to a series of art thefts which have been going on since World War II, when a convoy of art from Antwerp vanished on its way to France. Overall, I thought it well written (as one would expect, the writer, who really does manage an art gallery according to the blurb, does nice descriptions of both people and art).The only serious problem I had with it
is that the villain is described as being in his 50s in a book published (and apparently set) in 1980, yet he is supposed to have been entrusted with running a major project for saving European art from the Nazis in 1940, when he would have been a teenager. I could believe he was one of the young student volunteers involved in the project, but not that he was the man in charge at that age.
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