The smoking briefcase was found in London's National Gallery—near a rapidly disintegrating self-portrait by Cézanne. The method of destruction? Acid, most obviously. The motive? That's up to Inspector Jack Oxby to find out.
Things just get messier when a Cézanne in an eccentric businessman's private collection meets the same fate—and a curator meets an untimely end. Is someone planning to deface all twenty-six Cézanne self portraits? Oxby's stumped—until the worst thing he could ever imagine becomes a very real possibility...
