Hope I'm not duplicating, but I've just read a bunch of museum-based
bestsellers:

Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (the Louvre and lots of art references,
particularly to 'secrets' in Da Vinci's paintings)

Several by the team of Preson/Childs set at the Museum of Natural History in
NY:
Relic, Reliquary, and Cabinet of Curiosities (includes some amusing internal
politics and I think one of the authors used to work there)

There's a very long series of art mysteries by Michael Innes (his Appleby
series) that are quite erudite.

I'm sure there are more, but that's off the top.

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