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.
A tale of art and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling as the stolen masterpieces themselves..
Boser becomes increasingly obsessed with the case and eventually uncovers startling new evidence about the identities of the thieves.
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.
After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case.
Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become one of the nation\'s most extraordinary Unsolved mysteries.
But after thousands of leads--and a $5 million reward--none of the paintings have been recovered.
They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas.
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. color photo insert. b&w illustrations throughout.
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
