 Chasing Vermeer is a 2004 children 's art mystery novel written by Blue Balliett and illustrated by Brett Helquist . Set in Hyde Park , Chicago near the University of Chicago , the novel follows two children , Calder Pillay and Petra Andalee . After a famous Johannes Vermeer painting is stolen on route to the Art Institute of Chicago , Calder and Petra are drawn into the mystery of the theft, which involves codes and clues from the painting. Hinweis: Die Rezension enthält Spoiler.
The novel is set in Chicago, Illinois. The novel is a mystery in which the characters, Calder Pillay and Petra Andalee, discover