The Ming Vase

There are some jobs it is better not to take; some vases that are best not stolen to order, and it is sometimes better for a thief to work alone, as The Dutchman discovered when he was inadvertently caught up in a villa rental scam.  For little did he know, as he waited for his client, that several other people were making their way towards the run-down chateau in the French alps, and two of them had their minds set on murder.