When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
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ISBN: 0439372976 (2005 Scholastic paperback)
Physical Description:252 p. : ill.print
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York : Scholastic, c2005, c2004.
General Note: Parents' Choice Silver Honor Book.A Child Magazine Best Children's Book Award.A Booklist Editors' Choice.An Edgar Award.A New York Times Notable Book.Paperback copies Include "After Words", "Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer", pgs. [255-271].
Formatted Contents Note: Three deliveries -- The letter is dead -- Lost in the art -- Picasso's lie -- Worms, snakes, and periwinkles -- The geographer's box -- The man on the wall -- A halloween surprise -- The blue ones -- Inside the puzzle --Nightmare -- Tea at four -- X the experts -- Flashing lights -- Murder and hot chocolate -- A morning in the dark -- What happens now? -- A bad fall -- The shock on the stairs -- A maniac -- Looking and seeing -- Twelves -- Help! -- The pieces.