title: Grand Scale Larceny: The Heist of the Flemish Primitives
author:  Hugo Uyttenhove 
description: <br /><br />Hugo Uyttenhove was born in Belgium in 1949 and first came to the United States on a one-year American Field Service scholarship in 1967. He returned years later to study, receiving a PhD in System Science from Binghamton University. After writing several technical books, he has written his first mystery novel. He includes experiences from his travels, his language skills and his passion for all things Flemish. He resides in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife Kristin Conrad.<br />The writing of this book was prompted by a request of a friend in Hollywood to write a screenplay. Proving to be unsatisfactory because of the lack of in-depth descriptions of people, places and things, I decided to write the full story first.<span> </span>After self-publishing the book, I wrote the screenplay as a spec-script with much more enthusiasm. The script is currently making the rounds...
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  Hugo Uyttenhove
  
  © 2018 by Hugo Uyttenhove. All rights reserved.
  
    
  
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  Edited by Kristin Conrad and Michelle Gardner .
  
  Cover by Vila Design
  
  Also by Hugo Uyttenhove:
  
  _Grand Scale Larceny: The Heist of the Flemish Primitives (2010)_
  
  _Rembrandt Redux (2011)_
  
  Dedication
  
  **T** his book is dedicated to