02835cam a2200541 i 4500 364727139 TxAuBib 20181128120000.0 180308s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018010860 9781616203580 1616203587 (OCoLC)1016411852 TxAuBib rda Shapiro, Barbara A., 1951- The collector's apprentice : a novel / B.A. Shapiro. First Edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018. ©2018. 343 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris--broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's art collection, prove her innocence--and exact revenge on George. When the eccentric and wealthy American art collector Edwin Bradley offers Vivienne the perfect job, she is soon caught up in the Parisian world of post-Impressionists and expatriates--including Gertrude Stein and Henri Matisse, with whom Vivienne becomes romantically entwined. As she travels between Paris and Philadelphia, where Bradley is building an art museum, her life becomes even more complicated: George returns with unclear motives . . . and then Vivienne is arrested for Bradley's murder"-- Provided by publisher. 20181128. Text in English. 1900-1999. Art Collectors and collecting Fiction. Art thefts Investigation Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Art. Art Collectors and collecting. Art thefts Investigation. Murder Investigation. FICTION / Thrillers / Historical. FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical. Paris (France) History 20th century Fiction. Paris (France) Art 20th century Fiction. France Paris. Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction. Novels. Historical fiction. Novels. Detective and mystery fiction. Historical detective and mystery fiction.