Urban Clues: The Fourth Face

Last night a silk sash vanished from a family chest in the centre of Minsk. For more than a century the family called it "the copy", and on Wednesday an expert agreed. Tomorrow at ten it was due to leave for a foreign auction as a genuine Słuck sash, with a story worth hundreds of thousands. Your client is waiting at the door. You have one day. THE CITY IS THE BOARD The Fourth Face is played on foot, in the real streets of Minsk's Upper Town and Trinity Suburb. Walk to ten real places, from the doors of the Kupala Theatre to the riverside, and the case opens as you arrive: people to question, papers to read, things that can only be seen by standing there. A CASE, NOT A QUIZ • Question the people involved, show them what you have found, and press them when their story doesn't hold. • Read letters, ledgers, receipts and a diary page, and look closely: a watermark, a signature, a pencil…