Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found Jim LaMarche one of the few in

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

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

Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns

But when her ogre bodyguard disappears

and a nondescript lighter that once belonged to him decades ago

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found Jim LaMarche one of the few inThis 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