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An art historian by training and the author of that acclaimed doorstop of a book An Instance of the Fingerpost, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Pears has also written half a dozen less earnest novels that he calls ”art history mysteries.” This may be the best. Pears has also written half a dozen less earnest novels that he calls ”art history mysteries.” This may be the best.

Several years ago, after a career spent dreaming up art crimes, Pears nearly walked into a real one. On New Year's Eve 1999 he and a houseful of guests had gathered to ring in the new millennium. Shortly before midnight the baby began to howl. Pears dutifully grabbed baby and stroller and ventured outdoors in the hope that a change of scene would prove soothing. At that moment a thief broke into Oxford's Ashmolean Museum-only a few blocks from where Pears stood rocking the baby-and ran off into the night with a $4.8 million Cezanne.

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