In Art, Mystery, a controversial former footballer, now export
agent specializing in chrome, accepts an unusual commission
from an odd source, the very man who brought him down, a
former football referee turned art handler-to find and
export a pornographic work of Renaissance art.
"Perlat Tile, Pablo Pablon, Ms. Jasmine, and the Beast of Bern
tussle and conspire with other assorted gangsters and PhDs
over an illicit Pollaiuolo statuette. The action unfolds in Tirana,
between the National Museum and a bar named Tiranosaurus
Tex, leading to a denouement in Venice. Mr. Thompson
has given us the perfect cocktail of suspense and whimsy.
Very highly recommended-even the most humorless of art
historians will be tickled by Art, Mystery!"
-Dr. Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
"I am impressed with Art, Mystery. Cracking dialogue. I enjoyed
reading it. I also thought it was very funny and wore its humour
integrally, I mean, like, subtle."
-Josephine Pryde
About the author:
Art, Mystery is Mayo Thompson's first published work of fiction
since the nineteen-sixties. He is best known for his work with
the psychedelic band, The Red Krayola.
