CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Daniel had been right, there was a gold mine in Pierre Lafontaine’s library and computer.
Well, at least a silver mine.
Remi and Béatrice pored over the research Monsieur Lafontaine had conducted on the paintings of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and their painters—Death by Jacob van der Veer, War by Jan Mertens, Pestilence by Geert Janssens, and Famine by Frerik Peeters.
Lafontaine had been busy. He had assembled scraps of information from a dozen archives in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. The man had hired a translator for the German archive material but knew Dutch himself. Remi wondered if he had taught himself the language in order to better research the four painters. This research certainly showed an obsession stretching back at least ten year
