Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found Jim LaMarche Nothing can ruin her strategy—except

Nothing can ruin her strategy—except maybe the surprising new addition of a cocky

one of the few in town who believed in Althea’s innocence

I’ve spent the last few years solving murders

But when her ogre bodyguard disappears

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found Jim LaMarche Nothing can ruin her strategy—exceptThis revelatory biography persuasively addresses the two great unresolved questions about Vermeerwhy did he paint his pictures, and what do they mean? One spring day in 1683, a notarys clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled on one of the wonders of the seventeenthcentury world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. How had this one Dutchwoman come to possess the majority of the masters work? And why have