Iain Pears: The Titian Committee (UK 2014)

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Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.

Membership of the prestigious Titian Committee is normally considered a high honour. Normally, that is, until two of its members end up dead and someone seems to be taking the idea of backstabbing a little too far.

Flavia de Stefano of Rome's Art Theft Squad is sent to find out why. She calls upon the help of dealer Jonathan Argyll, in Venice to buy a picture from the Marchesa di Mulino. But the sudden theft of the Marchesa's collection sets Flavia and Jonathan on a tortuous trail to uncover the truth.

A further death threatens the very survival of the Committee itself, as well as offering the tantalizing possibility of an undiscovered Titian - a mysterious composition that may have been suppressed for 'moral' reasons...

Iain Pears: The Titian Committee. HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780007380800 (January, 2014), eBook, 0.37 MB (ca. 256 p.), £4.49.

Iain Pears: The Titian Committee (UK 2007)

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'Pears is that rare bird: a crime writer who can grip without gore' -- INDEPENDENT
Membership of the prestigious Titian Committee is normally considered a high honour -- until, that is, two of its members end up dead. Someone seems to be taking the idea of backstabbing a little too far.

Flavia de Stefano of Rome's Art Theft Squad is sent to find out why. She calls upon the help of dealer Jonathan Argyll, in Venice to buy a picture from the Marchesa di Mulino. But the sudden theft of the Marchesa's collection sets Flavia and Jonathan on a tortuous trail to uncover the truth.

A further death threatens the very survival of the Committee itself, as well as offering the tantalizing possibility of an undiscovered Titian - a mysterious composition that may have been suppressed for 'moral' reasons...

'Pears is a delightful writer, with a light, ironic touch' -- MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Iain Pears writes delightfully witty, elegant well-informed crime novels' -- THE TIMES

Iain Pears: The Titian Committee. HarperCollins, ISBN: 0007229186 (May, 2007), 247 p., £7.99.

Iain Pears: The Titian Committee (USA 2002)

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With his "subtle technique of mixing intrigue with intelligence" (The Boston Globe), New York Times bestselling author lain Pears combines "articulate characters and erudite art commentary" (The New York Times Book Review) in this sophisticated, suspenseful series featuring art historian Jonathan Argyll and the delightfully clever Flavia di Stefano. In The Titian Committee, a member of a famous research committee has been found stabbed to death in a Venetian public garden, and Rome's Art Theft Squad sends Flavia to investigate. But each time Flavia comes close to solving the case, another member of the embattled committee is murdered. Now, with Jonathan's help, she must race against time-and fate -- to find the killer.

"PEARS WRITES DELIGHTFULLY WITTY, ELEGANT, WELLINFORMED CRIME NOVELS. " -- The London Times
"[PEARSI WRITES CLEARLY, PERSUASIVELY, AND WITH A HAND GUIDED BY TOUCHES OF SENTIMENTALITY AS WELL AS MISCHIEF. " -- Chicago Tribune
"[PEARS] WRITES WITH A BEERBOHM-LIKE WIT." -- Publishers Weekly
"[A] DELICIOUSLY LITERATE SERIES." -- Kirkus Reviews

Iain Pears: The Titian Committee. Berkley Prime Crime, ISBN: 0425185001 (August, 2002), 262 p., $15.00.

Iain Pears: The Titian Committee (USA 1999)

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"Light and sassy... Agatha would have loved it." -- Los Angeles Times
A member of the famous Titian research committee has been member of the famous Titian research committee has been A Found stabbed to death in a Venetian public garden, and Rome's Art Theft Squad sends Flavia di Stefano to help the local carabinieri. They think it is a simple case of mugging, but quarreling within the committee makes everyone a suspect to Flavia. When a web of clues begins to emerge in a most confusing manner, she calls on the services of art historian Jonathan Argyll. But each time Flavia comes close to solving the case, another Titian member is murdered. Now she and Argyll must race against time -- -before the committee is snuffed out for good...

"Mr. Pears does some lovely brushwork on the minor characters who contribute to the subtle tones of this elegant mystery..." -- New York Times Book Review

"Presents a world the author knows well in the satisfying way Margaret Truman and Dick Francis set their mysteries in milieus they know..." -- Associated Press

"Writes with a Beerbohm-like wit." -- Publishers Weekly

Iain Pears: The Titian Committee. An Art History Mystery. Berkley Prime Crime, ISBN: 0425168956 (May, 1999), 230 p., $5.99.

Iain Pears: The Titian Committee (USA 1993)

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Following the success of lain Pears's first mystery, The Raphael Affair, The Titian Committee finds glamorous, temperamental Flavia di Stefano of the Rome Art Theft Squad and diffident art historian Jonathan Argyll once again faced with art skullduggery and unexpected danger when murder interrupts an international art committee conference on Titian, which is meeting in Venice. Cutting their way through a maze of deceit that ranges from the fifteenth-century studio of a great master to the bottom of the Grand Canal, they eventually untangle a centuries-old mystery involving Titian's own life.

Iain Pears: The Titian Committee. Harcourt Brace & Co., ISBN: 0151904723 (October, 1993), 189 p., $19.95.

Iain Pears: The Titian Committee (UK 1991)

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He saw the mangled and twisted remains of the flowers, and then the curled up form in the middle of the flowerbed. He put the toe of his shoe underneath the unconscious figure and turned it over, so he could insult this destructive creature more effectively. "Mother of God," he said instead...

A member of the famous Titian Committee, Louise Masterson, is found stabbed to death in a Venetian public garden. General Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad sends his assistant Flavia di Stefano to Venice to put her 'expertise' at the disposal of the local carabinieri.

The Venetian police resent her presence. They have their own solution: undoubtedly some mugger, probably Sicilian, was responsible. Flavia has other ideas and calls on the services of art historian Jonathan Argyll, in Venice to buy a picture collection from the Marchesa di Mulino.

Then another member of the committee is found dead, and the Marchesa's collection is stolen. Is Masterson's murder connected to the second death? Where does the art theft fit in? Following a tortuous trail, Flavia and Argyll trace Masterson's last movements... and not only discover another murder, but come close to unravelling a mystery from Titian's own life.

A fascinating and complex story set amidst the canals of Venice, this is an excellent sequel to lain Pears' much admired first novel The Raphael Affair.

Iain Pears: The Titian Committee. Gollancz Crime, ISBN: 0575050330 (March, 1991), 247 p., £13.99.