John Savident is wonderful as a Swedish art collector who thinks he's been scammed, while Avril Elgar suspects her husband isn't always "selling encyclopedias" when he goes out. The posh girl in the antique shop acts as badly as usual.
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I Always Wanted a Swimming Pool
Prismark1011 December 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This is a clever story that inverts expectations with the aid of some clever direction.
Frank Marker has two cases. One is being hired by the wife of a door to door encyclopedia salesman who is convinced her husband is having an affair. Marker follows him and finds nothing untowards.
The second is being hired by a Swedish art dealer Sven Gustafsson who believes that he has been been sold a fake painting of an artist by the name of Manton.
Sven believes that Charles Luce is using a young artist called Alan Grove to reproduce Manton's work. Marker could make a lot of money from this job if he uncovers evidence of fakery.
Luce and Grove certainly behave suspiciously. They only sell paintings abroad for a lot of money.
It turns out that the encyclopedia salesman is a lover of the arts and is having an affair with a young actor.
As for Luce. It seems Manton was a prolific artist who did a lot of similar paintings. They were all genuine.
Marker was quids in with this one. I knew the White Guardian could never indulge in such villainy.
Frank Marker has two cases. One is being hired by the wife of a door to door encyclopedia salesman who is convinced her husband is having an affair. Marker follows him and finds nothing untowards.
The second is being hired by a Swedish art dealer Sven Gustafsson who believes that he has been been sold a fake painting of an artist by the name of Manton.
Sven believes that Charles Luce is using a young artist called Alan Grove to reproduce Manton's work. Marker could make a lot of money from this job if he uncovers evidence of fakery.
Luce and Grove certainly behave suspiciously. They only sell paintings abroad for a lot of money.
It turns out that the encyclopedia salesman is a lover of the arts and is having an affair with a young actor.
As for Luce. It seems Manton was a prolific artist who did a lot of similar paintings. They were all genuine.
Marker was quids in with this one. I knew the White Guardian could never indulge in such villainy.
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