Going for the Gold

<p><strong>A compelling tale of art history and intrigue</strong></p><p></p><p>When American museum curator Dickie Read stumbles upon a pair of eighteenth-century silver candlesticks in a remote chapel in Umbria he sets off to solve a decades-old mystery. His curiosity and knowledge of antique artifacts lead him to uncover the history of a Jewish girl hidden from the Nazis during World War II. As Dickie delves deeper he discovers a connection to a famous American expat who inherited a fabled trove of eighteenth-century gold hollowware long believed to have been lost during the war.</p><p></p><p>With the help of the beautiful Marchesa Lucrezia Atti Dickie embarks on a journey across Europe and America to piece together the artifacts' history. Met with dead ends and danger-including an encounter with the infamous Red Brigades-Dickie forges on to bring closure to an enduring family mystery and restore the hollowware to its rightful place.</p><p></p><p>A noted decorative arts scholar David B. Warren crafts an intriguing story about the search for lost history set against the backdrop of historical Italy. With animated characters and rich details<em> Going for the Gold</em> beautifully blends the mysteries of museum artifacts and the forgotten past into a novel of discovery.</p>