Doors Open

For other uses, see Doors Open Days.

Doors Open
Author(s)	Ian Rankin
Country	Scotland
Language	English
Genre(s)	Crime fiction novel
Publisher	Orion Press
Publication date	2008
Pages	272 pp
ISBN	0752890700
OCLC Number	232712930

Doors Open is a 2008 novel by crime writer Ian Rankin.^[1][2] It is his first stand alone thriller in over 10 years. The story was originally published as a serial novel in The New York Times Magazine.

Plot outline

Mike Mackenzie is a software entrepreneur who has sold his company for a substantial amount of money, but is now bored and looking for a new thrill. His new found wealth has funded a genuine interest in art so when his friend Professor Robert Gissing presents him with a plan for the perfect crime, he willingly helps set that plan in motion.

With a vast collection but limited wall space, the National Gallery of Scotland has many more valuable works of art in storage than it could ever display. The plan is to stage a heist at the Granton storage depot on "Doors Open Day" during which a selected group of paintings will be "stolen". The gang will then give the appearance of having panicked and fled without the works of art, however they will actually have switched the real paintings with high quality forgeries good enough to convince anyone investigating the matter that no theft has been committed.

As they begin to flesh out the plan, it becomes clear that they need some "professional assistance" and a chance encounter with Chib Calloway, a local gangster who Mike went to school with, fulfils that need.

Related works

Rankin's 2002 collection of short stories, Beggars Banquet, includes a story "Herbert in Motion" whose plot is also concerned with the theft of undisplayed works of art from the storage facilities of a major gallery, and their replacement with high quality forgeries to mask the crime.

References

1. ^ "Doors Open by Ian Rankin". The Times. 5 October 2008. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article4875095.ece. Retrieved 22 October 2010. 
2. ^ "'Doors Open,' by Ian Rankin". San Francisco Chronicle. 5 March 2010. http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-05/entertainment/18376963_1_edinburgh-ian-rankin-scheme. Retrieved 22 October 2010. 

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