Diamond investigates the authenticity of a bust of Venus that an art gallery says is over 2,000 years old (from 435 B.C.), but a woman says she posed for it only 5 years prior while an art student in Italy.
A quarter of a million dollars is at stake when an antique piece of art appears to be fake. Hired to find out what happened to the real art piece and who is behind the scheme, Richard Diamond soon finds out that he has been used and comes up with a plan of his own to take a hand in this foul play...—Jasper P. Morgan