Kaleidoscope

In the last decade of the twentieth century in Suvrinia-a small independent country situated between Greece and the former Yugoslavia-a priceless painting disappears from the Monte Venero monastery and arts academy. Was it taken by Lucia Bambolini once-famous sex symbol of the Italian cinema whose presence at the academy has not exactly been welcomed? Or was it Pussy Peebles the rotund Irish orphan who holds a rather large grudge against the Catholic church? Or perhaps it was one of the other colorful denizens of this irreverent outpost. In this rollicking tale a cast of eccentric not-entirely-fictitious characters make finding the culprit-and sorting out the consequences-a page-turning kaleidoscopic delight.