Police come calling for Maddie, with the news that an artist in town has just committed suicide, and they want to know if she knew him. Artist Phillip Wright evidently has a secret love for Maddie: his studio walls are covered with her photos, and a recently-completed portrait of her hangs on his easel. Maddie never knew him, but she is touched with the thought that he secretly felt so strongly for her.
Maddie buys the painting, then gives it away to a man who says he is Charlie, Phillip's brother. But Maddie learns that Charlie didn't want the painting for sentimental reasons, because he had begun to scrape the paint from the canvas, looking for something underneath.
It turns out that Phillip, Charlie, and another man were international art thieves, who had stolen a multimillion dollar painting called "The Duchess" three years ago, and now they want to try to sell it. The trouble is, Phillip was the only one who knew where the painting was, and now he's dead. And then Maddie learns that he's left a clue to The Duchess's location in his own "Portrait of Maddie", the same clue that Charlie was looking for and never found....
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