The theft made international news; Scotland Yard was assigned to the case. After three long years of detective work, the police would eventually recover the violin, which had been handed off from one criminal group to another. But in the meantime, Min had used her insurance money to buy another, lesser instrument, and the violin market was bid up. Her Strad was now worth millions. She couldn’t afford to buy it back. It was purchased by an investor, in whose home it still sits. She descended into depression, stopped playing altogether. At the time of the theft, she’d been about to release an
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