The Genius
Making an ethically precarious decision to establish himself in the art world by illegally selling works by a missing genius, Ethan Muller finds himself targeted when it is revealed that the pieces contain clues about the artist's role in a forty-year-old murder case. Reprint.
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“A MASTERFUL PLOT AND DEAD-ON PACING.”—Entertainment Weekly “From its first hip, cynical, snarky, confessional pages, this deftly plotted novel rivets the reader…a must buy.”—Booklist In a decaying New York slum, a tenant named Victor Cracke has disappeared, leaving behind countless cardboard boxes of strange, original artwork. Gallery owner Ethan Muller can see their brilliance—and their moneymaking potential. Strictly speaking, the drawings don’t belong to Ethan. But great art demands an audience, and before long Ethan’s wildly successful show is being covered by the Times…where it attracts the attention of the police. Because the subjects of the pictures look exactly like the victims in a long-cold murder case. Ethan has received a letter saying stop stop stop. And the still-missing genius may be the link to a madman—or the madman himself…
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