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back!”.
    “When I see you again?”.
    “I’ll be back tomorrow, it was much easier than expected, I’m not saying I’ve found Master Brandenburg’s murderer but at least I know something more about his life and contacts”.
    “It’s not there that we have to look for it, eh?”.
    “I don’t think so, but I found out that Corinna was not actually one of his possible lovers, she’s his own daughter”.
    “You had already anticipated, Vincent, that the surprises were far from finished ...”.
    “Yeah”.
    “How did you get there?”.
    “It was the girl's mother to tell me the whole story, that Helena Singer who had phoned a couple of times to the Master; she told me that she met the Master almost thirty five years ago and had a long love story with him, love story that led to the birth of this child”.
    “There's something that doesn’t make sense to me, Vincent...”.
    “If you let me finish... it happened that the Master, at the end, did not want that responsibility; according to the lady, indeed, he was very poor, and that’s why he came to Italy”.
    “What do you think about it?”.
    “In my opinion, Brandenburg was led to understand how his presence was not welcome within that family of industrialists; then, in order to avoid years of discussions and hypocrisies, he packed up and left. The scandal was finally covered up with a marriage of interests, promptly put in place by the Singer family”.
    “What about the lady?”.
    “Very talkative, Angelo ... just that I had the impression that the Master was for her only one kind of whim, a distraction, something special, light years away from hypocrisy, fake smiles and monotony of a typical upper middle class family”.
    “Damn ... have you also talked with Brandenburg’s daughter?”.
    “Of course, born Corinna Adler”.
    “What about her, instead?”.
    “Very different story ... she tried not to show her true feelings; indeed, during our brief conversation she was almost daring me, but in the end she couldn’t resist to show up her affection to the Master. I personally believe she really suffered about learning the news of her real father’s death”.
    “I think so, Vincent, if you remember some of the phrases Corinna wrote to the Master, the few that the interpreter was able to translate yesterday, well ... you can say that they are the proof of her affection”.
    “Yeah ...”.
    “What time will your plane arrive here, tomorrow?”.
    “It should land at Fiumicino around five in the afternoon, give or take a minute or two; I think I’ll take a scheduled flight but if I change my mind, I’ll let you know”.
    “Okay, I guess now you want to know if there are news from Italy as well, right?”.
    “I already know that there aren’t, unfortunately ... otherwise my phone would have started to ring here and instead he did not ...”.
    “In our defence there is the fact that you left only one day   ago ...”.
    “That's true ...”.
    “There's something I need to do before you come?”.
    “Actually, yes, Angelo, you should call the Fossi & Sons, the company that deals with the surveillance service of the area; ask them if they can provide us last week records. Corinna told me that she had been to see her father and that she had stayed in his house until Tuesday, a few days ago, so I'm really curious to see what happened around the place during this very period”.
    “Alright Vincent, the number is on your desk, right?”.
    “Yes, there should be a hand-written piece of paper by that guy who showed up yesterday on behalf of the company, you’ll see that you’ll find there the numbers of those who can give us a   hand ... one more thing, you should take all those letters the Master received, again, and ...”.
    “We are already doing, actually”.
    “Yes, but this time you’ll have to focus only on the names of those who sent them to him, not on the content of the letters, and then you’ll have to compare them with those written