
A Willful Corpse
An Art of Murder Mystery
Helen A. Harrison(Author)
Level Best - Historia (Publisher)
Published on 8. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
266 pages
978-1-68512-935-4 (ISBN)
Description
Where there's a will, there's murder.
In the high-stakes game of authenticating artwork by Jackson Pollock, the foremost expert, a feisty character known for his hair-trigger temper, is certain that a bunch of bogus paintings are up for consideration. He believes they're clever forgeries painted by a member of the late artist's inner circle. Private detective TJ Fitzgerald is hired to track down the source.
Is it one of Pollock's drinking buddies, his art dealer, or perhaps his lover?
As the evidence piles up and the culprit's identity is about to be revealed, a fatal accident derails the investigation. Was it really an accident? Fitzgerald believes it was murder, with the forger as suspect number one. But the victim's multiple wills suggest other motives. As one lead after another fails to pan out, a chance encounter sends the detective in a new, more sinister, direction.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
437 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68512-935-4 (9781685129354)
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During her career as a director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, New York, Helen A. Harrison began writing mystery novels set in the New York art world. A widely published author of books and articles on art, she enjoys making up stories in which fictional characters interact with real people from her own background and experience as a New York Times art critic, NPR arts commentator, museum curator and practicing artist. Her second novel, An Accidental Corpse, won the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Mystery & Suspense. A New York City native, she and her husband, the artist Roy Nicholson, live in Sag Harbor with the ghost of Roy's beloved studio cat, Mittens.