Chasing Rembrandt

Donald Strachey #17

by Richard Stevenson, Zachary Lipez (Foreword)

“Robbers wreak havoc, smashing the glass covers protecting masterpieces and slicing paintings out of their frames. They make off with 13 works, including three Rembrandts and a Vermeer, worth more than half a billion dollars and beloved in the world of art. It is arguably the greatest property theft in human history.”
In his final mystery, Donald Strachey is hired to find the missing art in a cold case from over 30 years ago with a $10 million reward! Hired by a local woman in a small Western Massachusetts town of Lenox who may have discovered the disposition of the artwork but needs Strachey to track down the culprits, question them, and convince them to hand the art over so that she and Strachey can collect the reward.
Chasing Rembrandt leads him all over Boston, New York, and the east coast in this thrilling masterpiece of its own. Published posthumously, the author signed off on the final edits a few weeks before his death, at 80, in 2022. A
foreword is included by Zachary Lipez, the author's son.

Genres: Mystery, LGBT

292 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 1, 2023

About the author

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Richard Stevenson is the pseudonym of Richard Lipez, the author of nine books, including the Don Strachey private eye series. The Strachey books are being filmed by here!, the first gay television network. Lipez also co-wrote Grand Scam with Peter Stein, and contributed to Crimes of the Scene: A Mystery Novel Guide for the International Traveler. He is a mystery columnist for The Washington Post and a former editorial writer at The Berkshire Eagle. His reporting, reviews and fiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Progressive, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and many other publications. He grew up and went to college in Pennsylvania and served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1962-64. Lipez lives in Becket, Massachusetts and is married to sculptor Joe Wheaton.

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

So sad this is the last of the series. I have read them since I was a kid. Liked the TV show. Wrote to Richard (and got a wonderful letter back--or was it email, I don't remember). My dad bought me "On the Other Hand" at the college bookstore when we were investigating colleges. I filled in the rest of the series and bought each new one from "Third Man" on as they came out. I have a signed Stratchey's Folly & when "Death Vows" came out Richard invited me and my boy friend to return to Massachusetts to get married. (My hubbie and I met there, but moved back to Ohio--it was insanity, I know) This is a fitting end to the series. but I suggest you start at the beginning. They are all so much fun to read. I am glad I have Grand Scam (also signed, but inscribed to someone else) and the other posthumous novel to read. He really was a great writer. SO entertaining...and a great guy.

[David Van Horne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another fabulous Donald Strachey book.

[Philip · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sad to see the series end. So long Donald Strachey and so long Richard, you were a trail blazer! XO.