Conman: Chasing After the Mastermind Behind Britain's Most Daring Art Fraud (Art Insiders - Provenance, #1)

by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo

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When teacher John Myatt put a modest advertisement in Private Eye as a painter of 'genuine fakes', he had no idea that it would lead to him becoming a willing part of the biggest art fraud in Britain. Among one of the few people who responded was the mysterious and magnetic John Drewe, a Professor and inventor with impressive connections. Soon the commissions flooded in and soon it also became clear that there was something very fishy about them - When he confronted Drewe, to his amazement he found himself agreeing to an audacious criminal career with Drewe as the spider in an ever-growing web of deceit...
  • ISBN10 1906142661
  • ISBN13 9781906142667
  • Publish Date 3 January 2010
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 April 2011
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Gibson Square Books Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English