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Short story: A flagrant case of Cubism

In the fourth short story by David Donner, police optometrist Oscar O’Neill is confronted by the puzzling theft of a Mondrian painting

WEB-FOXTROTDI Stott was getting frustrated. He had no reason to suspect this older chap, but he just had a gut instinct that all was not as it should be. A couple of hours of intensive interviewing had produced nothing. It was time for something different. It was time to call Oscar.

Seventy-two-year-old Albert Williams was a volunteer at Bashcombe House, a stately home in Surrey that housed a somewhat obscure art collection. It was best known (if known at all) for a painting by Mondrian called The Foxtrot on display in the dining room. Except now the home was best known for not having the painting.

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