stunning anorexic, Desdemona feels it is her role in life to bring Kokoschka's lost works together and away from public scrutiny. Meanwhile, two individuals, Leo Lang and Bruno Fichte-Mahler, harbor fanatical interest in Kokoschka and go to extreme measures either to desecrate or to protect the artist's images of Alma. An endangered Megan pursues leads that take her from Basel and Vienna to Berlin and finally to Xenia, Desdemona's remote islet off the Greek island of Corfu. Includes Readers Guide. Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, ALESSANDRA COMINI was awarded Austria's Grand Medal of Honor for her books on Viennese artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Her "Egon Schiele's Portraits" was nominated for the National Book Award and her "The Changing Image of Beethoven" is used in classrooms around the country. Both in new editions are now available from Sunstone Press. Comini's travels, recorded in her memoir, "In Passionate Pursuit," extend from Europe to Antarctica and are reflected in her second mystery novel in the Megan Crespi Mystery Series, "The Schiele Slaughters." It, and the first in the series, "Killing for Klimt," were also published by Sunstone Press.