Detective. Polyglot. Chef. Eunuch.Investigator Yashim Returns in this Edgar® Award-Winning Series Istanbul, 1840: the young sultan Abdülmecid believes that Gentile Bellini''s vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it''s not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean. Instead, it''s his Polish ambassador friend, Palewski, disguised as an American art dealer.What begins as a simple inq..
