Lethal Red Secrets: A Murder Mystery Thriller (The Mia Treadwell Murder Mystery Series) by GK Lawrence

Author:GK Lawrence [Lawrence, GK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

They waited for an hour and a half.

“Hey, Michael. Thanks for saving my life.”

“Thanks for saving mine.”

“We have some time to kill, so I might as well tell you about why I don’t teach now.”

“Like I said, ma’am. It’s none of my business.”

“No, I want to tell you. I want to tell you before you search for it yourself online and get the wrong idea.”

He nodded.

“I was teaching at NYU and I wrote a paper. About Adolf Hitler’s opinions on art. You probably know this already, but he was rejected from an art school he applied to. He wasn’t terrible—as an artist, I mean—if I’m being honest, but he had a lot of difficulty with vanishing points and his style was just a less-impressive version of classics. He wanted to be another Bernardo Bellotto, but he was more like… bargain-brand Bernardo Bellotto. People often joke that if he’d been admitted into art school, World War II never would have happened.”

Fong leaned in, interested to hear the story.

“In his totalitarian state, art he disliked was all destroyed. Burned. The Nazis called art that offended their sensibilities degenerate. Some of that art was the kind of stuff produced by graduates of the same school that wouldn’t admit Hitler. Abstract art. Modernists. He wanted the artistic taste of Germany to be, coincidentally, exactly his taste in art. And, of course, his taste in art was the kind he tried to replicate. So I had a cheeky theory. Maybe Hitler was primarily motivated by the power to control art. To force people to accept and celebrate the art he loved. To accept and celebrate his art.”

Fong rubbed his chin. She had his undivided attention.

“And in a perverse way, I think it worked. Hitler’s art is very valuable now. It’s a paradox. No one had any interest in his paintings until he set the world on fire and killed millions of people. That wasn’t what got me in trouble, though. It’s the next part. Because I also included an analysis of the Christchurch mass shooting in New Zealand. Do you remember that? Was that in the news here?”

“I don’t read the news much, ma’am.”

“Okay, well, the details aren’t too important for this conversation, but the relevant bit is that this spree-killer made a video of the murder and posted it on the internet. The first of its kind, as far as I know. I mentioned that with the growing popularity of NFT art—that’s like, internet art made out of bitcoins or something… to be perfectly honest, I don’t really understand how all that works. But it’s not important. The important part is that NFT art can’t be destroyed. Ever. It’s on the internet forever. No government can destroy it. Hitler couldn’t destroy it, no matter how degenerate it was.”

Mia sighed and took a breath and looked at all the people passing by.

She continued, “I predicted that some psychopath would inevitably commit some horrible atrocity for the sole purpose of using the fame to sell an NFT.

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