Iain Pears

Iain Pears has worked as an art historian, a television consultant, and a journalist in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of the highly praised Art History Mysteries; the novels An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Dream of Scipio; a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects. He lives in Oxford, England.

The endearingly incompetent British art historian Jonathan Argyll may not be adept at running a gallery in modern-day England, but he sure has a knack for murder