![]() ![]() ![]() George can't believe this, telling Edna that 'after what he did to you, he'll kill me?' to which Edna tells him that Archie will kill her too. She tries to get George to leave, warning him that if Archie finds him here, he'll kill him. When George asks what Archibald did to her, she slowly comes out of the pantry and reveals a bruise by her eye. George arrives at Edna's apartment and calls out for Edna and Simon, but Edna tells George to go away. But with no evidence to prove King's guilt, they're forced to leave without King in their custody. Suggesting that King had McCann kill Galbraith because of the debt, Bernie prompts them to speak with McCann, but then they inform him that McCann is also dead. They inform him of Professor Galbraith's death, and it turns out he was one of King's clients, who was heavily in debt to him. Another body's been found.Īt Bernie King's club, Brackenreid introduces Murdoch to King, the biggest bookmaker in all of Toronto. Inspector Brackenreid informs Murdoch that the victim is William McCann, who was a low life worker of Bernie King, the bookmaker, but before Brackenreid can continue, George appears at the Inspector's office door. ![]() Higgins only got a brief look at him, Detective Murdoch searches the victim's coat - and finds a human thumb. Too late to catch the killer, Constable Higgins arrives and blows his whistle to call for help. ![]() In the dead of night during a cold winter in Toronto, a young man is about to get attacked by another in an alleyway, but not before he's garroted and killed, scaring the young man away from the crime. While Murdoch hunts for the culprit, Crabtree deals with a perilous situation of his own. Compton Verney in Warwickshire owns a naive but spectacular painting signed T L Morilyan and titled A Terrible Shipwreck, but knows nothing of the site of the wreck or the fate of the people struggling in the waves.As bodies stack up in the morgue, the victims killed in different ways but most are missing the same macabre trophy, it appears that a sequential killer is on the loose in Toronto. In some cases a signature identifies the artist, but no more. Argument is rumbling about the date of a portrait of a soppy looking boy standing at a piano – the child prodigy Frederick Jewson, owned by the Royal Academy of Music – and whether the flamboyant carpet suggests an interior in Edinburgh, London, Paris or Russia. The discussions are drawing out some arcane information. Interested members of the public already contribute along with distinguished historians including Bendor Grosvenor, himself renowned as an art detective – he recently found a portrait of Bonny Prince Charlie that had been lost for centuries – and Professor Martin Kemp of Oxford University, a world expert on the work of Leonardo da Vinci.Īny mystery painting with a splash of salt water is a magnet to Pieter van der Merwe, from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, who recently suggested, just from looking at hazily depicted flags, that a fleet of tall ships – artist, date and location unknown to the Russell-Cotes gallery in Bournemouth – might represent the fourth battle of Cape St Vincent on 5 July 1833. "Art Detective should provide a central exchange and a podium where expertise can be shared, problems can be aired and discoveries can be publicised," he said. The project has the backing of Nicholas Penny, the director of the National Gallery. The effort to identify the paintings is being thrown open because many of the owners, including small museums and institutions such as the Scottish Police College – which wants to know more about a fireman struggling through the snow carrying a child – have no resident curators, access to specialist knowledge or funds for research. At the Royal Free hospital in London – with a collection assembled from several hospitals – it is only tradition that holds that the man immortalised in a painfully tight collar was a distinguished rheumatologist. It is not clear to anyone at Abingdon-on-Thames council in Oxfordshire why they would ever have needed the painting of The Forge of Vulcan – artist, date and country of origin unknown. Portrait of an Unknown Rheumatologist, part of the Royal Free hospital's collection. ![]()
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