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Calouste Gulbenkian

1869–1955

Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was an Armenian businessman and financier who played an important role in the development of the international oil industry. Known for negotiating minority interests in major petroleum ventures, he accumulated a substantial fortune and assembled an important collection of European, Middle Eastern and Asian art. He spent much of his later life in Britain and Portugal.

Calouste Gulbenkian was an Armenian businessman, oil financier, art collector and philanthropist who lived in Britain and later Portugal. Calouste Gulbenkian was born in Üsküdar, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire and died in Lisbon, Portugal.

In Mark Ellis’ Dead in the Water, Armenian oil financier and collector Calouste Gulbenkian appears under his own historical identity in connection with the art plot; the particular transaction and crimes are fictional.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Calouste Gulbenkian (1 series)

DCI Frank Merlin in Order

by Mark Ellis 6 books 4.3(12,410)

Mark Ellis’s DCI Frank Merlin novels follow an Anglo-Spanish Scotland Yard detective through wartime London from the Phoney War of 1940 into 1943. The Embassy Murders begins amid uneasy Anglo-American diplomacy; In the Shadows of the Blitz moves into the Battle of Britain and Blitz; The French Spy…

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