The Curse of Pietro Houdini
A Novel
New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024.
Format: Book
Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Description: xiii, 360 pages ; 24 cm
In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within the Benedictine abbey's wall, accompanies him on a World War II art-heist adventure where they lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they've rescued from the "safe keeping" of the Germans.
Subjects:
Orphans -- Fiction.
Monasteries -- Fiction.
Painting -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Monasteries -- Fiction.
Painting -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781668020883
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