cover image Acts of Theft

Acts of Theft

Arthur A. Cohen. University of Chicago Press, $14 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-226-11250-3

Stefan Mauger, a dispossessed Austrian nobleman and talented sculptor, choreographs the theft of pre-Columbian Art from a Mexican island burial ground and runs up against Inspector Mariposa, a policeman and art connoisseur. PW praised this as a ""cultivated and thoughtful novel.'' (March)