Böcker av Pat Jakobi

When Trudi Olson arrives to staff the art league's gallery in a small Texas gulf coast city, she finds a dead man on the gallery's mezzanine. Homicide detective Val Forster and her partner initially think that finding the killer will be relatively easy. After all, there are not many people who know both the gallery's alarm code and have access to a key. But the detectives shortly find out that it is not so simple. Their investigation takes them into the unfamiliar worlds of artists, art forgery, false identities, and eco-evangelism. With assistance from Trudi and other art league members, they develop a scenario that helps them understand why the deceased was in the gallery in the middle of the night and his activities while he was there. But they need to find the answers to three important questions: Who was responsible for the man's death? Why did he kill him? And how did that person leave the gallery without setting off the alarm?

Since Audubon visited Galveston in 1837, artists have flocked to the island, some just passing through and others staying their entire lives. But because Galveston remained remote from the nation's cultural centers, its artistic contributions were initially largely ignored. However, the recovery effort from the Great Storm of 1900 spurred a new sense of local pride and civic determination. The Cotton Carnivals attracted people throughout the state, the city's artists united to promote local art through the creation of the Galveston Art League and photographers modernized their practices. In the early 1920s, a new generation, freed from nineteenth-century traditions, started to gain attention both on and off the island. Explore Galveston's artistic heritage with local historian Pat Jakobi, from the portraits of Thomas Flintoff to the Balinese Room murals of Marie Marchi Ragone.