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

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Shortly after nighttime on March 18, 1990, males broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and dedicated the biggest artwork heist in historical past. They stole a dozen masterpieces, together with one Vermeer, 3 Rembrandts, and five Degas. However after heaps of leads—and a $five million praise—not one of the art work were recovered. Value up to $500 million, the lacking masterpieces have turn into some of the country’s such a lot ordinary unsolved mysteries.

After the dying of famed artwork detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser made up our minds to absorb the case. Exploring Smith’s unfinished leads, Boser travels deep into the artwork underworld and is derived throughout a outstanding solid of characters, together with a super rock ‘n’ roll thief, a gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse, and the enigmatic overdue Boston heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner herself. Boser turns into increasingly more obsessive about the case and sooner or later uncovers startling new proof in regards to the identities of the thieves. A story of artwork and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling because the stolen masterpieces themselves.

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