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I love to read the books written by Margaret Truman. She is an easy read and keeps her readers in suspense.


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Murder at the National Gallery Capital Crimes Margaret Truman 9780449219386 Books Reviews

In Murder at the National Gallery, Margaret Truman examines the character flaws that can make a relatively mild-mannered, relatively good man, Luther Mason, turn to crime. We get to meet his cold mother, his ambitious ex-wife, his controlling girlfriend, his spoiled son, and also the delightful Annabel Reed-Smith, commissioned by the Vice-President's wife to work with Luther on the National Gallery's prestigious exhibit of the tempestuous Italian painter Carivaggio's work.

It's Annabel that helps to solve the mystery. We get to experience her joys and trials as an art gallery owner. We travel with her to Italy and learn about the amazing collections of magnificent art that exist in that country. We also hold our breath when Annabel gets mixed up in Luther Mason's crazy schemes and comes close to losing her life.

In my opinion, Murder at the National Gallery started slow. However, I felt happy that I stayed with the story because it heated up nicely as it progressed until I felt very grateful for the wide range of characters, an insider's look into the world of fine art forgeries, behind the scenes at the Capital, the Italian mob's connection with fine art, and a suspenseful mystery.
This is one in a long series of Capitol murder mysteries penned by Washington insider and presidential daughter Margaret Truman. Murder at the National Gallery is the first of Ms. Truman's works that I have read and I found it interesting, true to DC ( I am a Washingtonian also), clever, but a bit difficult to follow and rambling.

A long-time Gallery curator Luther Mason finally gets his day in the sun, when he organizes a Caraveggio exhibition and "discovers" a lost work. Actually he buys it from an Italian underworld figure with the help of corrupt Italian government employee and a defrocked priest. Mason's plan is to sell the work to another gangster and stick the Italians with a clever forgery, done by a drunk Parisian. This premise is a bit thin; I think modern art historian tools would uncover this ruse quickly.

Anyway the story develops nicely. Mason is a hero for putting together the show, but then the root of all evil surfaces. Everyone involved (and there are way too many for this episode to work) wants more money. Of course, they are all murdered to save money and tie up loose ends. Like Austin Powers, our hero has agreed to sell the painting probably worth $40 MM for $1 MM and needs to split that many ways.

Mason also goes to his just rewards and we proceed to the very clever finale. Mason's friend Pims, host of a cable TV show, stage manages all the characters to a scenic spot in Italy. Here in a comic and tragic scene, it unfolds that no one really knows who has original or forgery and who are the buyers and sellers.

I am going to read another of Ms. Truman's works in this series, but this one is not at the level of our great mystery writers.
Mac and Annabel are back with Annabel taking the lead in this one. Her college roommate is the Second Lady and they are both involved in the National Gallery's Caravaggio exhibition. But something is wrong with the curator and his story of the discovery of a lost masterpiece. Annabel helps in other art crimes as well. Got a little slow and I actually paused reading a couple times to read other more interesting books. This series is fun, but not great for some reason
This was a much better read than I expected. I'm not very knowledgeable in art by the masters...recognize names and some pieces but that's all, so I thought I would be bored. It was a slow start for me, but since I've really liked most of Margaret Truman's novels I stayed with it. It did get very much more interesting....to the point that I would love to visit our nations art gallery. I couldn't help but learn something about art and the National Gallery of Art. (P.S. Please don't refer to it as a museum...."New York's Metropolitan is a museum. Lots of things from all the ages. We just collect pictures and some sculpture. We're a gallery.") The last half of the book built to a more and more exciting conclusion. I'm glad I kept reading.
Loved this book
Can;t put down her books
Numerous characters interwoven in the story and takes place at various locations both national and international.
I love to read the books written by Margaret Truman. She is an easy read and keeps her readers in suspense.