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  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448125395
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 88

The Art of the Matter (Storycuts)



Destructive double-dealing is dispensed within the plush boardrooms of a celebrated auction house.

In this fascinating insight into the shady inner workings of the art world a young appraiser working at a prestigious auction house comes across an unidentified masterpiece. But when the powerful CEO of the company claims the discovery as his own the appraiser teams up with the original owner of the piece to gain revenge. Together they set up a cunning scam that shatters the illusion of the elegant world of the Old Masters.

Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection The Veteran.

  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448125395
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 88

About the author

Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels, including The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, as well as short story collections and a memoir. A former Air Force pilot, and one-time print and television reporter for the BBC, he has had four movies and two television miniseries made from his works. He is the winner of three Edgar Awards, and in 2012 he won the Diamond Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association, a lifetime achievement award for sustained excellence. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.

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