About the book: year / This is a detailed and comprehensive study of fraud in the art world. The authors collected information based on their own notes, interviews with scammers, interrogation reports, court decisions and archival materials. They talk about what happened hundreds of years ago and today in Finland, in Russia and around the world, they talk about how paintings are forged and how these forgeries are discovered. Some stories are so incredible that they may even seem fictional, but they are all real..