The extraordinary life and crimes of heiress-turned-revolutionary Rose Dugdale, who in 1974 became the only Woman to pull off a major art heist.
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He lives in Boston, MA.
Additionally, he is the co-author of Stealing Rembrandts (a Wall Street Journal bestseller) and author of The Art of the Con (a New York Times bestseller) and provides analysis on issues related to security and terrorism for the BBC, NBC News, NPR, CNN, FOX, and others.
About author(s): Anthony Amore is Director of Security and Chief Investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where he is charged with the ongoing efforts to recover thirteen works of art stolen from the museum on March 18, 1990.
Her life of crime and activism is at turns unbelievable and awe-inspiring, and sure to engross readers.
The Woman Who Stole Vermeer is Rose Dugdale\'s story, from her idyllic upbringing in Devonshire and her presentation to Elizabeth II as a debutante to her university years and her eventual radical lifestyle.
And as Anthony Amore explores in The Woman Who Stole Vermeer , it\'s likely that this was not her only such heist.
Dugdale thus became--to this day--the only Woman to pull off a major art heist.
In 1974, she led a gang into the opulent Russborough House in Ireland and made off with millions in prized paintings, including works by Goya, Gainsborough, and Rubens, as well as Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid by the mysterious master Johannes Vermeer.
Dugdale ran head-first towards the action, spearheading the first aerial terrorist attack in British hiStory and pulling off the biggest art theft of her time.
While on the surface she appears to be the British version of Patricia Hearst, she is anything but.
Born into extreme wealth, she abandoned her life as an Oxford-trained PhD and heiress to join the cause of Irish Republicanism.
Dugdale\'s life is singularly notorious.
In the hiStory of major art heists, that outlier is Rose Dugdale.
But, as with all things, there is always an outlier--someone who bucks the trend, defying the reliable profiles and leaving investigators and researchers scratching their heads.
In the world of crime, there exists an unusual commonality between those who steal art and those who repeatedly kill: they are almost exclusively male.
The extraordinary life and crimes of heiress-turned-revolutionary Rose Dugdale, who in 1974 became the only Woman to pull off a major art heist
