The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft Paperback - 2010
by Boser, Ulrich
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One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld--this account tells the true story behind the lost Gardner masterpieces and the art detectives who swore to get them back. b&w illustrations throughout. color photo insert.
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Details
- Title The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
- Author Boser, Ulrich
- Binding Paperback
- Edition unknown
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Paperbacks
- Date 2010-03-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR003822591
- ISBN 9780061451843 / 0061451843
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.6 x 0.69 in (20.17 x 14.22 x 1.75 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1990's
- Cultural Region: New England
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Locality: Boston-Worcester, Mass.
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008038803
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.162
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From the rear cover
Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads--and a $5 million reward--none of the paintings have been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.
After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case. Exploring Smith's unfinished leads, Boser travels deep into the art underworld and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including a brilliant rock 'n' roll thief, a gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse, and the enigmatic late Boston heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner herself. Boser becomes increasingly obsessed with the case and eventually uncovers startling new evidence about the identities of the thieves. A tale of art and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling as the stolen masterpieces themselves.
