A senior art gallery curator faces humiliation and disgrace - not to mention a prison sentence - when his part in a major art fraud looks about to be exposed.

But a personal connection to a painting makes the gallery curator rethink his options...

Concluded by James Bryce

From a collection of short stories by crime writer Ian Rankin.

Abridged and produced by David Jackson Young

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2002. Show less