A Well-Mannered Monster - Softcover

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Manners are how a man without a conscience borrows one in public.

Julian Calder is the man old institutions hire when they need to change without looking like they are changing. He writes notes by hand. Never raises his voice.

Spring 2026. The Halden Collection has eleven weeks until the exhibition that is supposed to save it. A curator has been talking to a journalist. Julian is brought in to clean it up.

June Pell is a provenance researcher on a short contract. She finds three staff who asked about the same Meissen service. All three left the same way. One received a condolence note in grey-blue ink.

For readers of Highsmith, Rendell, and slow dread in well-lit rooms.

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