- Detective and mystery stories, Art, Juvenile fiction, Children's literature
When strange and seemingly unrelated 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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Classical in form, contemporary, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Blue Balliett
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 259
- Publisher
- Chicken House, The, Tian xia yuan jian chu ban gu fen you xian gong si, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780786270071
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