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

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

Ulrich Boser

260 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction art history true crime informative mysterious slow-paced

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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. Bu...

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