The Bellini Card

The third Investigator Yashim mystery from Jason Goodwin, whose series debut The Janissary Tree won the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan hears that Gentile Bellini's lost portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, the Ottoman court's eunuch investigator, sends his friend Palewski, the Polish ambassador, to the decaying city in disguise, where dealers, faded aristocrats and a killer are all on the trail of the missing painting. The Sunday Times named it one of the 100 best crime novels since 1945.

Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover with dust jacket, 2009, 288 pages. First American Edition, second printing (number line ends at 2). Originally published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber in 2008.

Condition: Like new. Minor scuffing and scratches to the dust jacket.