The uncommon appeal of clouds
by Alexander McCall Smith
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Isabel, Jamie and Charlie are off to Highland Perthshire to visit an old schoolfriend of Isabel's, who married into a family of wealthy newspaper owners. A few weeks later, the Edinburgh press reports a major art theft from the friend's Highland estate, including a valuable Dutch masterwork that was going to pay the estate tax. In helping her friend and the team of lawyers to negotiate the ethical dilemmas of paying ransom for the painting's return, Isabel will face her first real criminals.
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Women philosophers, Isabel Dalhousie (Fictitious character), Fiction, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2012-11-11, New York Times bestseller, Mystery and detective stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Edinburgh (scotland), fiction, Dalhousie, isabel (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crimePlaces
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Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
2013, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
in English
0307949230 9780307949233
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Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
2013, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
0349138761 9780349138763
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The uncommon appeal of clouds
2013, Vintage Canada
in English
- Vintage Canada edition 2013.
0307361896 9780307361899
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Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
2012, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
1405517638 9781405517638
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The uncommon appeal of clouds: an Isabel Dalhousie novel
2012, Pantheon Books
in English
0307907333 9780307907332
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Issued also in electronic format.
Sequel to: The forgotten affairs of youth.
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Investigating the theft of a valuable painting that was supposed to be donated to the Scottish National Gallery, Isabel harbors a growing suspicion that the thieves may be close to the painting's wealthy owner.
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