art thefts

Fifteen-year-old Kat schemes her way into the best boarding school, hoping to leave the thieving antics of her family behind her, but Hal, a former co-conspirator, appears on campus to tell Kat that a powerful mobster believes her father stole art from a priceless collection, and in order to save him, Kat will have to recover the paintings.

Angus the cat helps thwart the theft of the famous Mona Lisa.

A priceless gold hummingbird statue is stolen during a White House photo-shoot where George is working as a photographer's intern.

Mark Manship, chief curator of European art at New York's Metropolitan Museum, is mounting a major exhibition of the works of Botticelli, but he is thwarted in his attempts to collect the paintings he needs by a deranged nationalist who has vowed to either recapture or destroy all Italian art treasures.

Manhattan lawyer Mara Coyne is drawn into a case involving a lost masterpiece about to be auctioned at the Beazley's auction house and Hilda Baum, the daughter of a Dutch collector who lost his life and paintings to the Nazis in 1943.

Red Blazer Girls Sophie, Margaret, Becca, and Leigh Ann are hired by Father Julian who wants them to authenticate a painting, while Sophie faces off with her arch-rival and takes care of movie-star Nate Etan's dog.

Alexander Short, a reference librarian with a rocky marriage to a French pop-up book author, is hired by bibliophile Henry James Jesson III to do after-hours research on the life of a mysterious eighteenth-century inventor who left a cabinet full of wonders that chronicle his life, with one maddeningly empty shelf.

Photographer Andre Kelly, on assignment for "Decorating Quarterly" magazine at the home of one of Cap Ferrat's wealthiest residents, happens to spot a Cezanne being loaded onto a plumber's truck and sets off on the trail of a state-of-the-art art scam.

Examines the 2002 theft of two paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and how forensic evidence was used to capture and convict the thieves.

From his jail cell in Italy, Vincenzo Peruggia tells how and why he stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911.