02218cam a2200337 i 4500 495572459 TxAuBib 20210312120000.0 150821s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250049667 hardcover $25.99 1250049660 hardcover $25.99 (OCoLC)919105961 TxAuBib rda Housewright, David. Stealing the Countess / David Housewright. First edition. New York : Minotaur Books, 2016. 294 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier McKenzie ; 13 Since becoming an unlikely millionaire and quitting the St. Paul Police Department, Rushmore McKenzie has been working as an unlicensed private investigator, basically doing favors for friends and people in need. But even for him, this latest job is unusual. He's been asked to find a stolen Stradivarius, known as the Countess Borromeo, that only the violinist seems to want him to find. Stolen from a locked room in a B&B in the violinist's former hometown of Bayfield, Wisconsin, the violin is valued at $4 million and is virtually irreplaceable. But the foundation that owns it and their insurance company refuses to think about buying it back from the thief (or thieves.) However, Paul Duclos, the violinist who has played it for the past twelve years, is desperate to get it back and will pay out of his own pocket to get it back. Though it's not his usual sort of case, McKenzie is intrigued and decides to try and help, which means going against the local police, the insurance company, the FBI's Art Crime division, and his own lawyer's advice. And, as he quickly learns, there's a lot more going on than the mere theft of a priceless instrument. 20210312. McKenzie, Mac (Fictitious character) Fiction. Private investigators Minnesota Fiction. Stradivarius violin Fiction. Violinists Fiction. Ex-police officers Fiction. McKenzie ; 13.