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The Empty Frame: A Vanishing at Aldgate and Wren

The Empty Frame: A Vanishing at Aldgate and Wren

Bureau, The Glitch

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798187038022
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the night the Vermeer disappears from its frame at Aldgate and Wren, retired stage illusionist turned insurance investigator Julian Pryce is the only guest who understands that the greatest tricks are the ones performed weeks before anyone is watching.

Five guests remain in the gallery when the alarm sounds. Five reasons to lie. The valuer with debts she will not name. The collector who wanted the painting more than she wanted her own reputation intact. The young restorer who touched the canvas last. The assessor who arrived suspiciously prepared. And the owner, Edmund Voss, whose grief looks almost too rehearsed.

Pryce does not believe in vanishing acts. He believes in mirrors, timing, and the moment before the audience looks away. As he retraces the preview night clue by clue a mismatched nail hole, a dated restoration receipt, a refused offer that makes no sense until it does the truth in the empty frame becomes harder to ignore: nothing vanished. Something was only ever moved.

A dark, atmospheric Golden Age mystery for readers who like their clues planted fairly and their reveals earned.

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