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The Gardner Heist
Ulrich Boser
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Description for The Gardner Heist
Paperback. 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. The theft has become one of the nation's extraordinary mysteries. Art detective Harold Smith worked the theft for years. This work explores his unfinished leads. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JJPR; ABK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228.
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 as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become the Holy Grail of the art world and their theft one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries. Art detective Harold Smith worked the theft for years, and after his ... Read more
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 as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become the Holy Grail of the art world and their theft one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries. Art detective Harold Smith worked the theft for years, and after his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061451843
SKU
V9780061451843
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About Ulrich Boser
Ulrich Boser has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Smithsonian magazine, Slate, and many other publications. He has served as a contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report and is the founding editor of The Open Case, a crime magazine and web community. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Reviews for The Gardner Heist
Boser has produced a captivating portrait of the world's biggest unsolved art theft.
Wall Street Journal A vivid portrait of the high-stakes world of art crime.
Associated Press Ulrich Boser presents his solution to the [Gardner] mystery.
Washington Post Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery. ... Read more
Wall Street Journal A vivid portrait of the high-stakes world of art crime.
Associated Press Ulrich Boser presents his solution to the [Gardner] mystery.
Washington Post Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery. ... Read more