Notes
1/22/10
I'm currently working on my novel Stealing the Scream, a fictional account of the 2004 theft of Edvard Munch's famous painting.
CEO-turned-painter Percival Davenport's criminality starts when, fueled by insecurity, he hires a whiskey-drinking thief to sneak into museums and hang his paintings. If Percival can pass off his art as museum-worthy, he'll know he's competent. The "donations" attract the attention of Leonard, a Smithsonian guard and wannabe sleuth. Percival's studies intensify and lead to a preoccupation with Edvard Munch's The Scream. He steals it and develops Tell-Tale-Heart-like anxiety. When Leonard and law enforcement agents come knocking on Percivals door, he turns his mansion into an inferno, and the police are forced into creative means of art restoration.
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Theodore Carter
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