Nicholas Kilmer

Fred Taylor

1 - Harmony in Flesh and Black (Mar-1995)
2 - Man With a Squirrel (Jul-1996)
3 - O Sacred Head (Sep-1997)
4 - Dirty Linen (Mar-1999)
5 - Lazarus Arise (Oct-2001)
6 - Madonna of the Apes (Oct-2005)
7 - A Butterfly in Flame (Nov-2010)
8 - A Paradise for Fools (Sep-2011)

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  Harmony in Flesh and Black
  

  • Mar-1995
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  Fred Taylor - 1
  

  NOT A PRETTY PICTURE Highbrow Boston art collector Clayton Reed prefers to keep his distance from the dirty details of art acquisition. He leaves that to his business partner Fred Taylor, an ex-Vietnam vet whose nerves of steel, serve him well in ...

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  Man With a Squirrel
  

  • Jul-1996
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  Fred Taylor - 2
  

  In Nicholas Kilmer's sequel to Harmony in Flesh and Black, the debut of his mystery series set in the Boston art world, we're reacquainted with the passionate noncollector Fred Taylor. Fred, prowling the antique and jumble shops of Boston's Charles S...

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  O Sacred Head
  

  • Sep-1997
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  Fred Taylor - 3
  

  Art expert Fred Taylor is the agent for paranoid Beacon Hill collector Clayton Reed, a civilized man yet utterly ruthless collector. Fred supplies not only the brainwork, but the muscle, in their association. And from time to time, Fred either runs w...

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  Dirty Linen
  

  • Mar-1999
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  Fred Taylor - 4
  

  Nicholas Kilmer writes the most gripping--and well researched--art mysteries of today. With all of the artworld's chicanery and multimillions at stake, the action never flags. This time the cache is an improbable portfolio of erotica purchased clande...

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  Lazarus Arise
  

  • Oct-2001
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  Fred Taylor - 5
  

  Praise for Lazarus, Arise "Effective prose, fascinating subject matter, and a sometimes cynical look at the art world combine in an intriguing read." -Library Journal F-red Taylor is shocked. When a passenger at Logan Airport drops to the tarmac afte...

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  Madonna of the Apes
  

  • Oct-2005
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Fred Taylor - 6
  

  Fred Taylor, a veteran of unspecified clandestine services that have caused him to spend hard times in Southeast Asia, finds himself at loose ends in Boston. A late-night chance encounter in the city's Beacon Hill area throws his lot in with eccentri...

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  A Butterfly in Flame
  

  • Nov-2010
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Fred Taylor - 7
  

  Stillton Academy, a small art college on the New England coast north of Boston, is in financial trouble, and its days are numbered unless someone provides extraordinary help. The final straw may be the sudden disappearance of an instructor with a fem...

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  A Paradise for Fools
  

  • Sep-2011
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Fred Taylor - 8
  

  The young woman in the hair salon raises her shirt to show a friend a work in progress -- a riot of stunning tattoos. From the barber's chair, Fred Taylor knows that those images -- weird insects, beasts, and naked human figures -- could only come fr...

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