In the gondola

A masterpiece by Canaletto leads a young art historian on the trail of an unsolved mystery.

A young art historian pursuing academic success. A painting by the most famous eighteenth-century painter of vedute, Canaletto.

A gondola once possibly belonging to the poet Robert Browning – and who else before him?

These are the key elements of the novel. When Jeremy Allyn is assigned Canaletto’s Vedute by his teacher as the topic for his dissertation – a subject many have already written about – he realizes he must find an original perspective.

He therefore decides to focus on Canaletto’s figures, a secondary feature of his celebrated architectural scenes.

This marks the beginning of an adventure with unexpected turns that will lead Jeremy to make some astonishing discoveries and to uncover a crime which had remained buried for centuries.