The Bellini Card: Jason Goodwin
- £7.99 (Paperback)
Synopsis:
The third book in Jason Goodwin’s celebrated series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of Venice.
Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, he enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian dealers - self-made men, faded aristocrats and the hedonistic Contessa. But when two bodies turn up in the canal, he realises that art in Venice is a deadly business. And meanwhile, what has happened to Yashim?
The Bellini Card is a thrilling adventure in which a quest for a lost painting turns into dangerous game of cat and mouse that threatens to destroy the Ottoman throne and overturn the balance of power in Europe.
Tags:
- Categorised as:
- Fiction
- Sub-categories:
- Crime & Thrillers
- Places:
- Istanbul; Venice
- People & Characters:
- Yashim The Eunuch
- Genres & Themes:
- Art; Detectives; Murder Mystery
- Related Articles:
- Crime Writers Q & A: Jason Goodwin
- Selected edition:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780571239948
- Published:
- 07.05.2009
- No of pages:
- 320
