000 02593cam a22003253u 4500
001 77521
003 UtSlPG
005 20260610134809.0
006 m
007 cr n
008 260607r20251910utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d
040 _aUtSlPG
041 7 _anl
_2iso639-1
050 4 _aPT
100 1 _aMatull, Kurt,
_d1872-1920
245 1 0 _aLord Lister No. 0038: Een Museumdiefstal
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-21
508 _aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg
520 _a"Lord Lister No. 0038: Een Museumdiefstal" by Kurt Matull and Theo von Blankensee is a detective adventure novella written in the early 20th century. It centers on gentleman-thief Lord Lister (aka Raffles), who stumbles into a string of audacious art crimes while traveling in Italy, involving a swapped Raphael Madonna, a reclusive painter’s long-lost copy, a mysterious lady, and a publicity-loving American tycoon. The opening of the story finds Lister leaving London for a “vacation,” cheekily registering in Rapallo under Inspector Baxter’s name and being summoned to Florence by Professor Ciatti, where he learns the famed Raphael Madonna has been replaced by a masterful copy. A supposed suicide in the Cascine (the shady antiquities runner Pasini) strikes him as murder and seems tied to a wealthy American traveling incognito and a veiled woman. Following leads to Rome, Lister hears of a fresh theft at the Quirinal, confirms from painter Grombeck that he once copied the Madonna for a woman named Kitty who vanished with it, and tracks the woman (now Signora Potter) and the American onto the Rome–Paris express, noting coded exchanges and suspicious luggage. In Paris, he infiltrates the tycoon’s mansion as an electrician, overhears a blackmailer named Dent, triggers an arrest, and intercepts a prison letter that threatens to involve the eccentric Duke des Esseintes—whom Lister goes to approach as this opening section ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cAmsterdam: Roman- Boek- en Kunsthandel, 1910
653 _aDetective and mystery stories -- Periodicals
653 _aDime novels -- Periodicals
700 1 _aBlankensee, Theo von,
_d1881-1928
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77521
999 _c118241
_d118241