Going for the Gold

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A compelling tale of art, history, and intrigue When American museum curator Dickie Read stumbles upon a pair of eighteenth-century silver candlesticks in a remote chapel in Umbria, he sets off to solve a decades-old mystery. His curiosity and knowledge of antique artifacts lead him to uncover the history of a Jewish girl hidden from the Nazis during World War II. As Dickie delves deeper, he discovers a connection to a famous American expat who inherited a fabled trove of eighteenth-century gold hollowware long believed to have been lost during the war. With the help of the beautiful Marchesa Lucrezia Atti, Dickie embarks on a journey across Europe and America to piece together the artifacts' history. Met with dead ends and danger—including an encounter with the infamous Red Brigades—Dickie forges on to bring closure to an enduring family mystery and restore the hollowware to its rightful place. A noted decorative arts scholar, David B