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Book, 2006
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Current format, Book, 2006, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsHired by an insurance company to find a recently stolen painting called Trampoline Nude, 1972, hustler Nicholas Palihnic follows a trail that leads to a hoard of treasure buried beneath Manhattan, a murdered art thief, and Beatrice Belarus, a ruthless Manhattan art dealer. Original.
Nicholas Palihnic is a natty, tweed-suited hustler who knows every nook and cranny of New York&;and a thousand ways to break a girl&;s heart. Beatrice Belarus is a Manhattan art dealer with an insatiable appetite for money&;and for anyone who gets in her way. And a painting titled Trampoline Nude, 1972 has neither nudity nor a trampoline. But when Nicholas is hired by an insurance company to find the recently stolen painting, a murdered art thief points him to a trove of gold buried beneath Manhattan&;and suddenly all roads are leading back to Beatrice. As fortune hunters, lovers, and other strangers gather around him, there&;s one thing Nicholas must remember above all else: in this business, it&;s better to be crooked than dead....
Nicholas Palihnic is a natty, tweed-suited hustler who knows every nook and cranny of New York&;and a thousand ways to break a girl&;s heart. Beatrice Belarus is a Manhattan art dealer with an insatiable appetite for money&;and for anyone who gets in her way. And a painting titled Trampoline Nude, 1972 has neither nudity nor a trampoline. But when Nicholas is hired by an insurance company to find the recently stolen painting, a murdered art thief points him to a trove of gold buried beneath Manhattan&;and suddenly all roads are leading back to Beatrice. As fortune hunters, lovers, and other strangers gather around him, there&;s one thing Nicholas must remember above all else: in this business, it&;s better to be crooked than dead....
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