Case open

The Empty Frame beat somebody today.

They ran out of questions before they ran out of suspects. The case is still open, and the contradiction is still provably in there.

The Empty Frame — the scene

Classic Whodunit · 1955, Wren & Sons auction house, St James's, London

The Empty Frame

London, 1955. On the eve of the auction of the century, Sir Julius Wren lies dead in his own vault — beside a rediscovered Vermeer that five people would kill to sell, to keep, or to burn.

5 suspects · hard · 6090 min · free

Nothing on this page gives anything away — it knows whether the case was closed and nothing about how.