# Amazing Art Mysteries: On the Trail of Notorious Fakers, Forgers, Thieves, and Smugglers, Vol. 1

By **Heather Alexander**

- ISBN-13: 9781536233636
- Publisher: MIT Kids Press
- Pages: 264
- Published: 9 Mar 2027
- Language: en
- Categories: Children's Books, Art, Science, Arts, Music & Photography, Nature & How It Works

## About this book

The first volume in the Amazing Art Mysteries series, titled Amazing Art Mysteries: On the Trail of Notorious Fakers, Forgers, Thieves, and Smugglers, invites young readers to investigate real art crimes using science, history, and deductive puzzles. Heather Alexander blends children's art and science nonfiction with hands-on forensic challenges, from color matching and fingerprinting to building a time capsule.

This volume examines stolen masterpieces and clever forgeries, explaining how cat hair helped catch a forger and how New Year's fireworks enabled a theft. Readers learn how art detectives and curators identify fakes and recover treasures, with sidebars, illustrations, and art images supporting the investigations. A glossary, artist profiles, and bibliography close this first book in the Amazing Art Mysteries series.

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