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Literary Fiction

1 story | Updated July 23, 2023

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Art Thieves

By jude folly | jude folly

• Read time: 14 min. • Genre(s): Literary Fiction • Type: Heist Story • Status: Completed • Rating: 13+ • Tags: #heist #fine art #caper

Art thieves, everyone assumed when the story broke — that Vincent Van Gogh’s Irises had vanished from the J. Paul Getty. Executive Director Cliffe Shepard cast a jaundiced eye at Andrew Sharpe, muttering to a gaggle of police detectives as the upstart curator strolled by his office door, “Paintings certainly don’t sprout legs and walk away”….

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