The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft

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01 Mar, 2010

By Ulrich Boser (Author)

"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery."-- Vanity FairOne museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld: the riveting st...

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ISBN-10:

0061451843

ISBN-13:

9780061451843

Publisher

Harper Paperbacks

No.of Pages

272

Dimensions

7.94 X 5.6 X 0.69 inches

Description

"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery."-- Vanity Fair

One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld: the riveting story of the 1990 Gardner Museum robbery, the largest unsolved art theft in history. Perfect for fans of the Netflix series This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist!

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, hundreds of interviews, and a $5 million reward, not a single painting has been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become the Holy Grail of the art world and their theft one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.

Art detective Harold Smith worked the theft for years, and after his death, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to pick up where he left off. Traveling deep into the art underworld, Boser explores Smith's unfinished leads and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including a brilliant rock 'n' roll art thief and a golden-boy gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse. A tale of art and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling as the stolen masterpieces themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-10

: 0061451843

ISBN-13

: 9780061451843

Publisher

: Harper Paperbacks

Publication date

: 01 Mar, 2010

About the Author

Ulrich Boser -

Ulrich Boser has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Smithsonian magazine, Slate, and many other publications. He has served as a contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report and is the founding editor of The Open Case, a crime magazine and web community. He lives in Washington, D.C.