Marko didn't run for the exit. He ran to the Restorer's Lab. He knew something no one else did: the painting on the block was a decoy he had prepared himself. The real Veiled Truth was already in his possession, hidden behind a false wall in his studio.
Marko smiled, despite the danger. "You always were impatient, Viktor. But the map isn't on the canvas. It's in the pigment." The mystery had only just begun. Najbolja Ponuda(Krimi-Misterija)/The Best Offer...
The item was a tattered canvas titled The Veiled Truth . It looked like a mediocre 19th-century landscape, but the tipster claimed it hid a map to the "Black Archive"—a legendary collection of stolen historical documents. Marko didn't run for the exit