WATSON, PETER. - Sotheby's. Inside Story.

. London, 1997. 326pp. Plates in b/w. Index. Cloth. Dustjacket.*Watson's story of his five-year investigation into Sotheby's, and of his discovery of practices that include: the facilitation of smuggling; the sale of antiquities known to have been stolen from tombs; the rigging of auctions by chandelier bidding; secred and dubious arrangements with a Japanese department store and with members of Iran's rulijng elite; and the rigging of the Art Market Index..