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Killing the Emperors Audiobook Summary

Sir Henry Fortune, celebrity curator, has vanished. So too has his partner in love and money, disreputable art dealer Jason Pringle. Panic spreads throughout the London art world when more people go missing. No one can locate Anastasia Holliday, sensational Abject artist; Jake Thorogood, the critic who catapulted her into stardom; or Dr. Hortense Wilde, notorious for having influenced generations of art students to despise craftsmanship.

Hysteria hits the media when it is found that the common link between the victims is that their careers blossomed when they embraced newly fashionable conceptual art. Could it be that they are hostages? If so, why? Ransom? Revenge?

Who will be next? Will it be Sir Nicholas Serota, mighty overlord of British temples of the avant-garde, or the internationally renowned young British artist Damien Hirst, whose dross became platinum? Is danger in store for Charles Saatchi, megarich husband of a TV cook and the genius who took talentless young people and turned them into a winning brand?

When news comes of a disappearance in New York, the fears of the art establishment go transatlantic, with even such stars as Jeff Koons at risk.

Next the friends of Lady (Jack) Troutbeck report her missing, too, she a standard-bearer of conservative values in education and art who recently described admirers of conceptual art as knaves and fools. The police are bewildered. And then begin the horrifying Hommage murders, lethal satires on notorious works of art.

Can Troutbeck’s friends rescue her before her worst fantasies become reality?

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Killing the Emperors Audiobook Narrator

Wanda McCaddon is the narrator of Killing the Emperors audiobook that was written by Ruth Dudley Edwards

Wanda McCaddon began recording books for the fledgling audiobook industry in the early 1980s and has since narrated well over six hundred titles for major audio publishers, as well as abridging, narrating, and coproducing classic titles for her own company, Big Ben. Audiobook listeners may be familiar with her voice under one of her two “nom de mikes,” Donada Peters and Nadia May. The recipient of an Audie Award and more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, AudioFile magazine has named her one of recording’s Golden Voices. Wanda also appears regularly on the professional stage in the San Francisco Bay Area.

About the Author(s) of Killing the Emperors

Ruth Dudley Edwards is the author of Killing the Emperors

Killing the Emperors Full Details

Narrator Wanda McCaddon
Length 6 hours 27 minutes
Author Ruth Dudley Edwards
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date April 24, 2024
ISBN 9781481591522

Subjects

The publisher of the Killing the Emperors is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective

Additional info

The publisher of the Killing the Emperors is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781481591522.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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