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Turner's celebrated Fighting Temeraire has been brutally cut from its frame at the National Gallery during a routine maintenance closure-an impossible theft from a locked building with every staff member accounted for. Sherlock Holmes suspects the obvious crime conceals something far more audacious. As a second painting vanishes from a crowded gallery in full view of witnesses, and a third theft appears imminent before the Prince of Wales's visit, Holmes discovers a conspiracy that challenges everything he understands about theft and authenticity. With his friend Dr. Watson, Holmes navigates the refined world of 1890s art dealing-where photography promises perfect documentation, and the line between scholarship and fraud grows dangerously thin. From the studios of obsessive collectors to the workshops of master restorers, the investigation reveals a criminal mind that has weaponized expertise itself. Sherlock Holmes must trust not his eyes but his reason to expose a scheme so sophisticated that proving it may be impossible.

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