false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255608410m/4573498.jpg 4573498 1 <blockquote> <p> One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld—the story behind the lost Gardner masterpieces and the art detective who swore to get them back </p> </blockquote> <p> 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 a total of $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become the Holy Grail of the art world and one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries. </p> <p> Art detective Harold Smith worked on the theft for years, and after his death, reporter Ulrich Boser inherited his case files. Traveling deep into the art underworld, Boser explores Smith's unfinished leads and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including the brilliant rock 'n' roll art thief; the golden-boy gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse; the deadly mobster James "Whitey" Bulger; and the Boston heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner, who stipulated in her will that nothing should ever be changed in her museum, a provision followed so closely that the empty frames of the stolen works still hang on the walls. Boser eventually cracks one of the biggest mysteries of the case and uncovers the identities of the men who robbed the museum nearly two decades ago. A tale of art and greed, of obsession and loss, <i>The Gardner Heist</i> is as compelling as the stolen masterpieces themselves. </p> 4622881 1 3 2009 The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft total:204|5:15|4:64|3:96|2:26|1:3| 204 674 448 83 5 3 false false Sat Jan 17 09:10:34 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 05:25:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 27 11:10:28 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 24 12:32:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 true false Sat Apr 18 12:58:26 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 13:01:01 -0700 2009
In 1990 one of the biggest art heists in history occurred.

Over $500 million worth of art vanished overnight.

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