Vermeer girl with the pearl earring

Vermeer girl with the pearl earring
The Virgin and Child with St Anne
The Water lily Pond
Venus and Cupid
Christmas-time when I had a bit of a turn - what did I eat? When? Who cooked it? Who served it? Fuss, fuss, fuss! But though I may have indifferent health, I'm well enough to give you all the help that's in my power. Murder in my own house - or at any rate in my own barn! Interesting building, that. Elizabethan. Local architect says not – but fellow doesn't know what he's talking about. Not a day later than 1580 - but that's not what we're talking about. What do you want to know? What's your present theory?"
"It's a little too early for theories, Mr. Crackenthorpe. We are still trying to find out who the woman was?"
"Foreigner, you say?"
oil painting
"We think so."
"Enemy agent?"
"Unlikely, I should say."
"You'd say – you'd say! They're everywhere, these people. Infiltrating! Why the Home Office lets them in beats me. Spying on industrial secrets, I'd bet. That's what she was doing."
"In Brackhampton?"
"Factories everywhere. One outside my own back gate."