Case 34.

Field notes.

Real mysteries. A sharper eye.

An illustrated museum gallery with an empty frame where a portrait should be

Art theft1911

The day the Mona Lisa vanished

The Louvre’s missing masterpiece resurfaced when the thief tried to sell it.

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An illustrative coded message and handwritten note on a lamplit desk

Codebreaking1969–2020

51 years. 340 symbols.

Three collaborators cracked the message in 2020.

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An illustrated museum workbench with a jaw specimen, skull fragments and a magnifying glass

Forensics1953

The fossil that fooled the experts

Human skull, orangutan jaw. One convincing forgery.

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