Iran - Art After the Revolution by Stephen (surname unknown)

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Title: Iran - Art After the Revolution 

Author: Stephen (husband of Elizabeth)

Publisher: not known 

Source book: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman 

Elizabeth’s husband Stephen has written a number of books. One of them, Iran - Art After the Revolution, was given a very bad review by Julian Lambert. 

Stephen was once a major expert on Middle-Eastern Art. He lived in Tehran and Beirut in the sixties and seventies, and many years later went back to track down looted masterpieces for once-wealthy west-London exiles.

Stephen has dementia and his memory is very patchy. One night at 2.30 he is dressed and ready to leave the house to drive to London and give Julian Lambert what for. What Stephen can’t remember is he no longer owns a car, and that Julian killed himself in 2003 after an ill advised divorce. 

There appear to be quite a lot of real books about Iranian art, and post-revolutionary art since that’s what interests us today, but Iran - Art After the Revolution seems to be fictional.

Also in The Man Who Died Twice, Elizabeth’s ex-husband Douglas (I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him) is reading a book called Megastructures of the Third Reich. Again this sounds very real but I am not sure that it is.

Feel free to let me know if you think I’m wrong.

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