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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 131, 143

Metsu, Gabriel, 69, 77, 244

Man Writing a Letter
, 77

Woman Reading a Letter
(Metsu), 69, 244

Mona Lisa
(Leonardo da Vinci), forgeries and claimed theft of, 146-49

Moore, Henry,
King and Queen
(Moore), 103

Morgan, J. E, 134, 135, 136, 150

Morgan, Junius Spencer, 150

Mulvihill, Niall, 72-77

Munch, Edvard, 1, 6

Anxiety
by, 80

By the Deathbed
by, 80

Death Struggle
by, 80

Despair
by, 80, 86

Frieze of Life
by, 86

Hatred
by, 82

C. Hill’s study of, 78-79, 82, 87-88

life and work of, 79-82, 83-87

Madonna
by, 242, 244

Portrait of the Painter Jensen-Hjell
by, 83

The Scream (see The Scream
, Munch, theft of)

The Sick Child
by, 80, 83

Study for a Portrait
(Munch), 19

The Vampire
by, 18-19, 160-61, 234

Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway, art thefts from, 18-19, 160, 241-43

Museum for Contemporary Art, Norway, 243

Museum of the Missing (missing artwork), 13

Napoleon of Crime
(Macintyre), 150

National Fine Arts Museum, Paraguay, 13

National Gallery, Great Britain, 15, 27, 135n

National Gallery, Oslo, Norway, 243

art thefts from, 18, 19

press conference announcing return of
The Scream,
233

security mistakes of, 9, 11

theft of
The Scream
from. See
The Scream
(Munch), 1994 theft of

National Gallery of Ireland, 60

National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy, 13

Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence
(Caravaggio), 153

Nazis, art thefts perpetrated by, 12n, 152n

Nessa, Ludvig, 22-23

New Yorker
(U.S. magazine), 149

New York Times
(U.S. newspaper), 131, 149

Nicholas, Lynn, 152n

Norway, criminal gangs in, 160-62

Norwegian police investigation of
The Scream
theft, 19-20, 32, 94, 159-62, 198-99, 203-4, 210, 229-31

presence of, at Plaza Hotel where C. Hill and thieves met, 113-15, 118-20, 164-65

E. Ulving stopped by traffic police, 197-98

Olson, Don, 85n

Olson, Marilyn, 85n

Olympic Winter Games (1994), Norway, 7-8, 18, 159

Organized crime involved in art thefts, 152-56

Oslo Accords, 119

Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 239

White Duck,
239

Parmigianino, C. Hill’s investigation of thefts of works by, 167-73

Paradise Lost (John
Milton), 134

Pembroke, Earl of, 192, 193

Perugia, Vincenzo, art theft

perpetrated by, 146-49

Picasso, Pablo, 31, 215

Boy with a Pipe (The Young Apprentice),
132, 137

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,
132

Girl Before a Mirror,
132

Tête de Femme
(Picasso), 215

Plahter, Lief, 96, 233

Poe, Edgar Allan, 46

Police.
See also
Art Squad (Scotland Yard); Norwegian police

disdainful attitude of, toward art crimes, 26-27, 29, 237

C. Hill on corrupt, 104

Portrait of a Dominican Monk
(Rubens), 69, 127

Portrait of Dr. Gachet
(van Gogh), 48, 131, 137

Portrait of Dona Antonia Zarate
(Goya), 76, 123, 126

Portrait of the Artist Without His Beard (van Gogh),
137

Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
(Goya), 136-37, 187-88

Portrait of the Painter Jensen-Hjell
(Munch), 83

Price, Albert, 125

Price, Dolours, 124, 125

Price, Marion, 124, 125

Priests, anti-abortion, suspected in art theft, 22-24

The Procuress
(Vermeer), 61

Prop trap, Charley Hill’s undercover, 163-66

Rabin, Yitzhak, 119

Raging Hormones
(Walle), 8

Rape of Europa
(book by Nicholas) 152n

Rape of Europa
(painting by Titian), 14

Raphael (Sanzio),
Madonna of the Pinks
(Raphael), 135

Regional Crime Squad, Great

Britain, 211

Reit, Seymour, 146-49

Rembrandt van Ryn, 14, 18, 31, 78, 131, 240

D. Duddin on stolen painting by, 192-96

Sacrifice of Isaac,
78

Storm on the Sea of Galilee,
240

Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 131

Ball at the Moulin de la Galette,
48, 137

Rest on the Flight into Egypt
(Titian), 236-37

Reynolds, Joshua, 64

Roberts, Christopher Charles (Hill alias), 53-54, 71, 72, 78, 91, 107, 117.
See also

Hill, Charley

Rocky, undercover detective, 175-76

Rubens, Peter Paul, 63, 69, 127

Massacre of the Innocents,
129-30, 137

Portrait of a Dominican Monk,
69, 127

Russborough House, Ireland, art thefts from, 59-60, 63-69, 77, 121-27, 186

M. Cahill’s theft and recovery of
Lady ’Writing a Letter with her Maid
from, 59-60, 63-77, 122

Dugdale raid and theft at, 123-26 thefts between 1986 and 2002, 126-27

Russell, Tom, 102-4

Sack, Harold, 130

Sacrifice of Isaac
(Rembrandt), 78

Saito, Ryoei, 137

Sargent, John Singer, 28

Sassoon, Donald, 149

Sazonoff, Jonathan, 144n

Scotland Yard detectives, 24.
See also
Art Squad (Scotland Yard)

Scott, Peter, burglar, 215-16

The Scream
(Munch), 80, 82

delicate condition of, 22

determining authenticity of, 87-88, 223-24

first exhibition of, 84

Krakatoa eruption and, 84-85

in popular culture, 85-86

Spring Evening on Karl Johan Street
by, 81

Still Life
by, 82

theft of one of four versions of, in 2004, 241-44

The Scream
(Munch), 1994 theft and recovery of, 5-10, 17-20, 237

Art Squad and C. Hill

prepare sting to recover, 32-33, 48-49, 53-55, 78-88

frame of, 95-96, 97

C. Hill as undercover agent in, and interactions with thieves, 107-12, 163-66, 197-200, 203-9, 217-27

luring thieves of, from hiding, 91-106

Norwegian police investigation of, 19-20, 32, 94, 159-62, 198-99, 203-4, 210, 229-31

public reaction to, 20, 21

return of, to National Gallery, 233-34

role of T. Johnsen in
(see
Johnsen, Tor)

role of National Gallery’s J.K.

Thune in recovery, 93-94, 107

role of E. Ulving in
(see
Ulving, Einar-Tore)

security problems leading to, 9, 11

suspicions about P. Enger as thief of
The Scream,
161-62

taunting card left by thieves, 8, 17

thieves’ fee for return of
The Scream,
115

timing of theft, coinciding

with Olympics, 7-8, 17, 159

tips to police about, 21-24, 91-92, 95-96

S. Walker as undercover agent in, 108-11, 117-18, 165, 205, 217-19, 229-31

Security mistakes and art theft, 9, 11, 15

Serious and Organised Crime Unit (Scotland Yard), 26.
See also
Art Squad (Scotland Yard)

Shade and Darkness
(Turner), 155

Shakespeare, William, 136

The Sick Child
(Munch), 80, 83

The Silent Scream
(anti-abortion film), 23