Word: vermeer
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...scary, and people have to admit that.”She also professes some similarities to her damaged-goods character. “In every character I play there’s some aspect of myself,” she says. As the undervalued assistant to Vermeer in “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” she identified with her sense of longing, and for her role as Charlotte in “Lost in Translation,” it was a sense of displacement.“In this case I was very intrigued...
Just six months before the 1994 Scream theft, Hill had cracked the biggest art case in ages, the 1986 break-in at Russborough House near Dublin in which robbers made off with 11 pictures, including a precious Vermeer. In one of many cloak-and-dagger games the book recounts, Hill posed as the middleman for an Arab tycoon. He solves the Munch case by pretending to be a buyer for the wealthy J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, a role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes...
...western hemisphere”—Harvard—when son Eric suspiciously drowns alone in a hot tub after hours at Shad Hall, the “B-School’s” private fitness facility. The novel’s protagonist, junior finance professor Wim Vermeer, finds that his upcoming tenure review is the least of his problems...
...blue-blooded MacInesses suspect that the relationship between Eric and Vermeer was more than just teacher-student. And they also believe that Vermeer might have been the murderer of his suspected ex-lover. The result is a crimson-tinted twist on the old whodunit template...
Author and protogonist are both in the business of solving mysteries. For Vermeer, the investigation is a matter of life and death; for Cruikshank, the carefully-crafted mystery is the key to commercial success. And they both take their business very seriously...