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.
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