I'm just using the names I had in the original short story (ie all the names are French), but will probably change all of them except for the eponymous Philippe.
Loose synopsis thing:
Gregoire Thibault (now Gregory Tilmore) never exactly planned on becoming an art thief, but it pays the bills, so he's willing to put up with the inconvenient hours and the fact that most of his employers would be out for blood if he screwed things up. His latest task was pretty simple: steal a 19th century statue from the local gallery's storage facility, give to his employer, Francine Clement, get paid.
The thing that throws a spanner in the works is that upon stealing the statue, it comes to life. Philippe Grosjean had spent the better part of the past two centuries trapped in stone, and even though his memory of how he came to be a statue's a bit foggy, he's determined to get revenge, and wants Greg to help him. But... Greg has slightly more pressing problems at hand, in the shape of Francine Clement, who is demanding he deliver her the statue, and is becoming more and more suspicious of why he hasn't already done so.
The pair have to try to hatch a plan to fool Francine, to avoid the dire consequences she has promised Greg if he doesn't give her the statue that was formerly Philippe. Meanwhile (and this is the bit I haven't put much thought into), the Villain Person who made Philippe into a statue all those years ago is making their presence known, and Greg begins to realise that Francine isn't the only threat to his well-being. They need to discover what happened almost two hundred years ago that led to Philippe spending all those years as a decorative ornament, to stop it (or worse) from happening once again.
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