Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found Jim LaMarche A comedy of manners centring

A comedy of manners centring on the slow-burning romance between the coquettish Elizabeth Bennet and aristocratic

and a nondescript lighter that once belonged to him decades ago

red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks

But when her ogre bodyguard disappears

I’ve spent the last few years solving murders

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found Jim LaMarche A comedy of manners centringThis 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