The Bellini Card: A Novel: 3 (Investigator Yashim 3)

Investigator Yashim travels to Venice in the latest installment of the Edgar® Award–winning author Jason Goodwins captivating historical mystery series. Jason Goodwins first Yashim mystery The Janissary Tree brought home the Edgar® Award for Best Novel. His follow-up The Snake Stone more than lived up to expectations and was hailed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review as a magic carpet ride to the most exotic place on earth. Now in The Bellini Card Jason Goodwin takes us back into his intelligent gorgeous and evocative (The Independent on Sunday) world as dazzling as a hall of mirrors and utterly compelling.. Istanbul 1840: the new sultan Abdülmecid has heard a rumor that Bellinis vanished masterpiece a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim our eunuch detective is promptly asked to investigate but -- aware that the sultans advisers are against any extravagant repurchase of the painting -- decides to deploy his disempowered Polish ambassador friend Palewski to visit Venice in his stead. Palewski arrives in disguise in down-and-out Venice where a killer is at large as dealers faded aristocrats and other unknown factions seek to uncover the whereabouts of the missing Bellini.. But is it the Bellini itself that endangers all or something associated with its original loss? And why is it that all the killers victims are somehow tied to the alluring Contessa dAspi dIstria? Will the Austrians unmask Palewski or will the killer find him first? Only Yashim can uncover the truth behind the manifold mysteries.. The Paperback Edition Includes an Author Interview Bonus Inspector Yashim Recipe and an Excerpt from the Next Inspector Yashim Mystery An Evil Eye