Art Thief: A Jane Smith Amateur Sleuth Mystery Short Story: The Jane Smith Amateur Sleuth Mysteries, #4

By Connor Whiteley

An Art Theft. An Amateur Sleuth. A Hate for Abstract Art.

Even the quietest villages have expensive art.

Amateur Sleuth Jane Smith hates abstract art. Jane learns about a friend in dire need. She investigates a strange theft. 

Can Jane find the art and help her friend?

If you enjoy fun, unputdownable amateur Sleuth mysteries that will keep you reading late into the night, you need to read this short story!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: CGD Publishing
• Release date: Feb 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201787288

Connor Whiteley

Hello, I'm Connor Whiteley, I am an 18-year-old who loves to write creatively, and I wrote my Brownsea trilogy when I was 14 years old after I went to Brownsea Island on a scout camp. At the camp, I started to think about how all the broken tiles and pottery got there and somehow a trilogy got created.Moreover, I love writing fantasy and sci-fi novels because you’re only limited by your imagination.In addition, I'm was an Explorer Scout and I love camping, sailing and other outdoor activities as well as cooking.Furthermore, I do quite a bit of charity work as well. For example: in early 2018 I was a part of a youth panel which was involved in creating a report with research to try and get government funding for organised youth groups and through this panel. I was invited to Prince Charles’ 70th birthday party and how some of us got in the royal photograph.Finally, I am going to university and I hope to get my doctorate in clinical psychology in a few years.

Book preview

ART THIEF

Amateur Sleuth Jane Smith had never really been a fan of art, especially all this brand new abstract rubbish. To Jane and her husband before he died, art was considered a stunning painting of the countryside, a cityscape or a person. Not these massive lumps of colour that a child could paint and the abstract art selling for millions of pounds.

That was not art.

Jane hated abstract art with a passion because it wasn’t art, it was never going to be art and in all honesty all the hype around abstract art was utter nonsense, probably made up by people who didn’t have much of a life outside their precious art.

Jane stared at a massive canvas with blue, pink and green strips running down, as she stood inside the house of a friend of Jane’s best friend Marg, and Jane really didn’t want to stand here too much longer.

She was retired, elderly and she had far better things to be doing than staring at some coloured strips. Jane was even a rather good painter back in the day, she sold a couple of wonderful countryside paintings (real art) but after having her two sons she stopped for some reason.

The smell of the canvas was awful with its hints of must, rust and spilled coffee. Jane couldn’t believe that the artist would have this