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{{Image|Michael Gilbert Portrait - smaller.jpg|left|100px|Michael Gilbert on the back cover of [[Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens]], 1982}} | |||
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'''Paint, Gold and Blood''' is a 1989 suspense novel by the British mystery and thriller writer [[Michael Gilbert]] by [[Hodder and Stoughton]] in England by [[Harper & Row]] in the United States. It was Gilbert's 25th novel and.... | |||
==Plot== | |||
Unlike many of Gilbert's novels, which have plots within plots and apparently disparate themes that eventually merge together, '''The Family Tomb''' is a straightforward suspense story involving only members of the British colony in Florence, a wealthy Etruscan professor who excavates and sells ancient art objects, Italian police and judiciary officials, assorted politicians and lawyers, sympathetic Italian working-class people, and two sinister Mafia figures. | |||
==Reception and/or Appraisal== | |||
''The New York Times'' and ''Kirkus Reviews'' had very different appraisals of it: | |||
<blockquote>''The New York Times'': <ref>''The New York Times'', June 21, 1970: [https://https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/21/archives/criminals-at-large.html?searchResultPosition=2]</ref></blockquote> | |||
<blockquote>''Kirkus Reviews'': .<ref>''Kirkus Reviews'', May 1, 1970: [//https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/michael-gilbert-10/the-family-tomb//]</ref></blockquote> | |||
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Paint, Gold and Blood is a 1989 suspense novel by the British mystery and thriller writer Michael Gilbert by Hodder and Stoughton in England by Harper & Row in the United States. It was Gilbert's 25th novel and....
Plot
Unlike many of Gilbert's novels, which have plots within plots and apparently disparate themes that eventually merge together, The Family Tomb is a straightforward suspense story involving only members of the British colony in Florence, a wealthy Etruscan professor who excavates and sells ancient art objects, Italian police and judiciary officials, assorted politicians and lawyers, sympathetic Italian working-class people, and two sinister Mafia figures.
Reception and/or Appraisal
The New York Times and Kirkus Reviews had very different appraisals of it:
The New York Times: [1]
Kirkus Reviews: .[2]