Shortly after midnight of St. Patrick's day in 1990 two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the greatest, and still unsolved, art heist in history. Among them was The Concert by Jan Vermeer. In the novel Vermeer Tango, bartender, former art historian, and man of the world Max Brand is persuaded by a U.S. official to travel to Argentina to assist an art appraiser, and ex-wife Julie, in tracking down what appears...