- A society matron is killed in her study while uncovering an art forgery, and the unknown forger is the prime suspect.
- Society matron Lillian McGraw is stabbed to death while examining a painting she purchased at auction. She had started to scrape off the painting to get at another painting underneath, and had uncovered the artist's signature -- "Lazar," a key figure in an unsolved (and heinous) murder in Paris 25 years earlier. When the rest of the painting is revealed, it's a portrait of the dead woman herself. Investigation reveals that the woman was in Paris at the time of the murder and may have been the killer, but she lost her memory. Somebody didn't want her to regain it.—Peter Harris
- A wealthy socialite is killed. Ellery who's with Simon Brimmer, is called to go there. Brimmer decides to accompany and he tells Ellery that earlier he attended an art auction as did the woman and she bought a painting and for some reason paid so much more than it was worth. And that the man who painted it also cried out that it's a forgery. Ellery arrives and is told that she was in the act of scraping off the painting and it appears there's another underneath it. Ellery and his father talk to the artist who says he was emotional when he said that the painting is a forgery. He then also says that he met the woman about a week ago and told her she resembles the woman who was on the painting that he painted his painting on. They learn that the name of the artist on the painting underneath is that of an obscure artist who was last heard of in France 25 years ago and is the suspect In an unsolved murder. It was rumored that the one who was killed had a mistress who disappeared after the murder. And the socialite was supposedly in a boarding school in Switzerland at the time. But because she was forced to go there by her parents they think she ran away and went to France and became the mistress of the man who was killed and posed for the artist. To prove it they decide to scrape of the painting and sure enough it's of the socialite. So they wonder could the artist be the one who killed her to keep her from remembering. It seems like she repressed her memory from that time and was seeing a therapist.—rcs0411@yahoo.com
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