Chapter 12: The Jolly Art Sleuth
Fingerprint discovered by Peter Paul Biró
Biró had discovered fingerprints in the trees. Turner grew his thumbnail long to scratch marks into the wet paint. The technique was unmistakable.
“I think you’ll find it to be that of Mussolini,” Martin Butlin had joked. But the evidence was real—ridge patterns, pore impressions, the touch of the master’s hand.
The jolly art sleuth had found what the experts refused to see. Science was building a case that connoisseurship alone could not dismiss.
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