Marko watched from the wings. He noticed the bidder’s hand; it bore a unique scar—the mark of "The Ghost," a thief who had vanished a decade ago after a botched heist.
The bidding escalated rapidly. "One hundred thousand!" shouted a woman in red."Two hundred!" countered The Ghost."Five hundred thousand!" she screamed. Najbolja Ponuda(Krimi-Misterija)/The Best Offer...
The gavel came down. "Sold! To the lady in red for the best offer of five hundred thousand euros." Marko watched from the wings
But as the woman stepped forward to claim her prize, the lights flickered and died. A muffled struggle echoed through the hall. When the emergency generators kicked in moments later, the lady in red lay unconscious, and the painting was gone. "One hundred thousand
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19th-century landscape, but the tipster claimed it hid a map to the "Black Archive"—a legendary collection of stolen historical documents.