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Greetings! I have compiled a brief list of art mysteries set in the Boston/Cambridge area, which is below. Although the two mystery bookstores have closed, they both maintain a website. Spenser's Mystery Books http://www.spensersmysterybooks.com Kate's Mystery Books http://www.katesmysterybooks.com/ Whether you read hard-boiled, cozies, thrillers, or noir--or are just interested in mysteries--please attend the Mystery Readers Dinner scheduled for Sunday evening at 7 pm. * * *Boston/Cambridge Mysteries * The most recent art mystery is David Hosp's /Among thieves/, which takes the 20-year-old Isabella Stewart Gardner theft as its subject. Jane Langton also wrote a mystery on the topic, titled /Murder at the Gardner./ I believe one of the books in Charlotte MacLeod's Sarah Kelling/ Max Bittersohn series is on the same subject. Following is a list of Boston-area art mysteries. Collins, Eliza. /Going, going, gone/. 1986. Boston art gallery. Coxe, George Harman. /An easy way to go/. 1969. Kent Murdock; Boston -----. /Jade Venus./ 1945. Kent Murdock; Boston art theft Davey, Jocelyn. /A Treasury alarm. /1980. Boston. Art swindle. Dean, Elizabeth. /Murder is a collector's item./ 1939. Emma Marsh, Boston antiques dealer. -----./ Murder is a serious business. / 1940. Emma Marsh, Boston antiques dealer. Elkins, Aaron. /Loot/. 1999. Fuller, Timothy. /Harvard has a homicide./ 1936. Art theft. Heyman, Evan Lee. /The Thomas Crown affair./ 1968. Art theft Kilmer, Nicholas. Fred Taylor series. Some of you may remember when Mr. Kilmer spoke at the Houston conference. Knight, Kathryn Lasky. Calista Jacobs, children's book illustrator series. Langton, Jane. Homer and Mary Kelly series, many of which are set in Cambridge. MacDonald, Donna. /Murder at the Copley./ 2007. Art theft and murder in 1941. MacLeod, Charlotte. Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn series. Manuel, David. /A Matter of Principle./ 2003. Boston museum theft. Parker, Robert B. /The Godwulf Manuscript. /1974. Spenser, private detective. Taylor, Sarah Stewart. /O artful death./ 2003. Sweeney St. George, Cambridge, Mass. art historian specializing in death art. -----. /Mansions of the dead./ 2004. -----. /Judgment of the grave/. 2005 -----. /Still as death./ 2006. Finally, there is /Boston noir/ (2009), a collection of stories set in a different neighborhood of the city - the impressively diverse collection extends from Cambridge to Southie and Roxbury and all stops in between. Dennis Lehane, author of /Mystic River/ and /The Given day/ and master of both crime fiction and literary fiction, extends his literary prowess to that of master curator. For a list of mysteries set in Massachusetts, visit http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/LocationCats/USA/Massachusetts.html See you in Boston! Amy Amy Navratil Ciccone University of Southern California __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]