Hard · about 3 hours · $15

Lot 47

The vault was locked. The ladder was staged. The painting knows her hand.

The night before a record sale, Edith Navarro is found beneath a library ladder in a locked vault. The catalog calls Lot 47 a lost Vermeer-school canvas. The canvas has other ideas. Bring patience. The documents lie in complete sentences.

Calloway & Finch, a Manhattan auction house

In the building

• Julian Finch IIIHouse president
• Celeste DuvallConsignor
• Marcus OyelaranConservator
• Bea ThorntonBidder's agent
• Victor SandSecurity chief
• Nadia NavarroNiece and assistant

Victim: Edith Navarro, senior appraiser. The rest is on the desk, after you pay.