Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 as The vanishing man.
Contents:
A discovery -- The painting -- The painter -- Minister Street -- Man in black -- The talk of London -- A man in full -- the attack -- The theater of life -- Seizure and theft -- The trial -- The escape -- Velázquez on Broadway -- The escape artist -- The vanishing -- Seeing is believing -- The ghost of a picture -- An infinite number of Charleses -- Lost and found -- Saved.
Summary:
Describes the true story of a provincial bookseller who discovered an incredible portrait of King Charles I at a liquidation auction and his lifelong quest to prove it was painted by Diego Velazquez.
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