NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" ( The Economist ), the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Vel zquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-Century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.
When John Snare, a nineteenth Century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" ( The Economist ), the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Vel zquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-Century bookseller determined to prove he had found it
