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The Painting That Never Existed

A conservator is poisoned — and a masterpiece vanishes during the gala

★★★Hard~65 min11 questions14 apps on the phoneAge 16+

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Priya Sen

My sister Mira collapsed at the Calder Museum gala. The doctors found a toxic plant extract in her tea.

Was it deliberate?

During the confusion, The Glass Harbour — a painting insured for eighteen million — disappeared from the conservation wing.

Security blames Mira's intern, Niko Reyes. His badge entered the lab and he vanished before the police arrived.

But Mira left me one voice message: 'Do not let them call it a theft until you know what was on the wall.'

Where is her phone?

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The brief

The conservator collapsed halfway through the gala. By the time the ambulance left, the painting she had spent three years restoring was gone from a locked lab, and the only badge on the door log was her intern's. Her phone still holds the condition reports, the valuations and the messages she sent while she thought she was only being careful. Start with what she knew before anyone else did.

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