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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 death, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to pick up where he left off. Traveling deep into the art underworld, Boser explores Smith's unfinished leads and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including a brilliant rock 'n' roll art thief and a golden-boy gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse. A tale of art and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling as the stolen masterpieces themselves.
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.
Vanity Fair In The Gardner Heist, author Ulrich Boser offers a tantalizing whodunit as he embarks on an exhaustive search for the stolen masterpieces.
Boston Globe The book is a thrill.
The Guardian Now we read this. It looks like the largest theft since the Devil Rays took what should have been the Red Sox's 2008 American League championship. I don't know if those paintings ended up on eBay, but I do know they're not on my walls.
Senator John Kerry Boser's rousing account of his years spent collecting clues large and small is entertaining enough to make readers almost forget that, after 18 years, the paintings have still not been found.
Publishers Weekly Boser poetically contrasts the burning, almost unnatural desire art lovers feel for paintings with the cold reality that art theft is one of the easiest and most lucrative types of crime.
Kirkus Reviews Artfully done... Grade: A Minus.
Boston Herald Boser's book on it has the feel of a speedy ride down a mountain road spiked with hairpin turns.
Christian Science Monitor
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.
Vanity Fair In The Gardner Heist, author Ulrich Boser offers a tantalizing whodunit as he embarks on an exhaustive search for the stolen masterpieces.
Boston Globe The book is a thrill.
The Guardian Now we read this. It looks like the largest theft since the Devil Rays took what should have been the Red Sox's 2008 American League championship. I don't know if those paintings ended up on eBay, but I do know they're not on my walls.
Senator John Kerry Boser's rousing account of his years spent collecting clues large and small is entertaining enough to make readers almost forget that, after 18 years, the paintings have still not been found.
Publishers Weekly Boser poetically contrasts the burning, almost unnatural desire art lovers feel for paintings with the cold reality that art theft is one of the easiest and most lucrative types of crime.
Kirkus Reviews Artfully done... Grade: A Minus.
Boston Herald Boser's book on it has the feel of a speedy ride down a mountain road spiked with hairpin turns.
Christian Science Monitor