The Marble MaskThe Marble Mask
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Book, 2000
Current format, Book, 2000, , Available .When the frozen body of a murder victim turns up on a Vermont mountain, Lieutenant Joe Gunther uncovers links to a priceless mask sculpted by Michelangelo that mysteriously vanished in Italy during World War II.
When the frozen body of a murder victim--a smuggler from Quebec and the patriarch of a powerful crime syndicate--turns up on a Vermont mountain, Lieutenant Joe Gunther of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation uncovers links to a priceless mask sculpted by Michelangelo that mysteriously vanished during the World War II Italian campaign. 20,000 first printing.
Towering high above Vermont ski country, Mt. Mansfield's arctic crags have doomed many a soul - but none more hideously than the man found stone-cold dead and frozen stiff, wedged into the mountain ice.
This, Gunther's first assignment as head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation, is a tough one. Initially, Gunther presumes the body to be that of a lost hiker trapped by cold and snow - until the frigid carcass reveals a puncture wound to the heart. Not to mention two feet and an arm amputated with razor-sharp precision.
The mummified corpse is dressed to kill, but in outdated clothes. A frosty Canadian driver's license, which had expired in 1947, identifies him as Jean Deschamps of Sherbrooke, Quebec. Who maimed and murdered him? And how did he end up preserved on a mountaintop for over fifty years?
Searching for the truth lands Gunther in a viper's nest of ancient secrets, international gang wars, and dynastic intrigue.
When the frozen body of a murder victim--a smuggler from Quebec and the patriarch of a powerful crime syndicate--turns up on a Vermont mountain, Lieutenant Joe Gunther of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation uncovers links to a priceless mask sculpted by Michelangelo that mysteriously vanished during the World War II Italian campaign. 20,000 first printing.
Towering high above Vermont ski country, Mt. Mansfield's arctic crags have doomed many a soul - but none more hideously than the man found stone-cold dead and frozen stiff, wedged into the mountain ice.
This, Gunther's first assignment as head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation, is a tough one. Initially, Gunther presumes the body to be that of a lost hiker trapped by cold and snow - until the frigid carcass reveals a puncture wound to the heart. Not to mention two feet and an arm amputated with razor-sharp precision.
The mummified corpse is dressed to kill, but in outdated clothes. A frosty Canadian driver's license, which had expired in 1947, identifies him as Jean Deschamps of Sherbrooke, Quebec. Who maimed and murdered him? And how did he end up preserved on a mountaintop for over fifty years?
Searching for the truth lands Gunther in a viper's nest of ancient secrets, international gang wars, and dynastic intrigue.
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