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Stealing Mona Lisa by Carson Morton

Stealing Mona Lisa

A Mystery

by Carson Morton
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  • Aug 2, 2011, 352 pages
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  • Oct 2012, 352 pages
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"Is anyone here?" he heard the guard say as the young man slipped through the gallery entrance past the sign he had posted. Crossing the main atrium, he entered a corridor used only by mu­seum staff. He hurried to a side entrance, produced a key, and un­locked the door. Letting himself out, he closed the door behind him and walked off into the gathering evening.

From Stealing Mona Lisa by Carson Morton. Copyright © 2011 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC.

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