Originally published in 1949 but set during the 1930s, this novel pits Milla Anderson, an intrepid Hungarian reporter on holiday in Italy, against a sinister group of art thieves. Milla mingles Old World elegance and mystique with a healthy dose of hardscrabble street smarts, thanks to a stint living in Chicago with her American ex-husband. Accompanying Milla is the romantic but comically clueless Tibor Vida, a struggling Hungarian composer who serves as both her love interest and the Dr. Watson to her Sherlock Holmes. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the art thieves in order to return an obscure da Vinci painting to the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. Part of our Summer Reading Collection: Mysteries.