Chapter 12 - How Art Leaves a Mansion
This part was less dramatic than people imagine.
Nobody carried giant paintings past guards at midnight.
High-value art regularly moves legitimately.
Conservation.
Framing.
Photography.
Insurance inspection.
Loan consideration.
Storage.
Adrian had paperwork.
Nora had household authority.
Security saw professional cases.
Documentation listed:
temporary conservation transport.
The cases went out.
Later cases came back.
The original object entered a legitimate-looking logistics stream.
A substitute returned.
What happened afterward required financial investigation.
Some originals were placed through private intermediaries overseas and domestically.
Others were pledged as collateral through entities linked to Adrian.
The network became complicated.
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I stopped pretending I understood every step.
That was what forensic accountants and art-crime investigators were for.
