Alma Gilbert, renowned expert on the art of Maxfield Parrish, and the history of the Cornish, New Hampshire art colony, brings her forty plus years of experience as a museum owner and curator to this, her first venture in fiction. Her plucky heroine, Maggie Winters, an elderly Vermont museum director, is suddenly faced with the apparent theft of a recently donated and very valuable Maxfield Parrish painting. Gilbert uses the calm beauty of rural Vermont as the setting for an exciting and fast-paced story of the museum's ...
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Alma Gilbert, renowned expert on the art of Maxfield Parrish, and the history of the Cornish, New Hampshire art colony, brings her forty plus years of experience as a museum owner and curator to this, her first venture in fiction. Her plucky heroine, Maggie Winters, an elderly Vermont museum director, is suddenly faced with the apparent theft of a recently donated and very valuable Maxfield Parrish painting. Gilbert uses the calm beauty of rural Vermont as the setting for an exciting and fast-paced story of the museum's efforts to uncover the whereabouts of the painting. Along the way, Maggie, her friends and loyal staff must cope with a group of unsavory characters who are attempting to seize the painting for their own use. Thwarted by the painting's sudden disappearance, the group resorts to murder in an attempt to locate the prized painting before Maggie can solve the mystery of its disappearance. Can Maggie win the race against time with her opponents?
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Seller's Description:
Good. Size: 8x5x1; All proceeds benefit local libraries. Good copy! Tight binding. Pages are clean and intact. Personal inscription on inside cover page that is signed by the author.
