Gavin Lyall · 1969 · thriller

Gavin Lyall's 1969 novel. Bert Kemp deals in antique firearms in London and supplements the trade by moving paintings across borders where their legal export would be impossible. A Cezanne into Switzerland looks like money for old rope - until he wakes in a Zurich park with a lump on his head and the picture gone, and has to earn the fee the hard way.

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   London

   Gilbert Kemp keeps a shop of antique guns off the London antiques trade and a sideline in export - moving works out of countries whose laws would never permit it, for people who prefer not to be named on any paperwork.

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   Zurich

   The Cezanne is to be walked into Switzerland, which should be the easiest money he ever took - and instead he comes round in a Zurich park with a bump the size of a burial mound and no painting.