The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
ISBN: 9780061451843 | 0061451843
Format: PaperbackPublisher: HarperCollins Publications
Pub. Date: 3/30/2010
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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-and a dollar;5 million reward-none of the paintings have been recovered. Worth as much as dollar;500 million, the missing masterpieces have become one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.
| Author's Note | p. ix |
| The Storm on the Sea of Galilee: A Disturbance in the Courtyard | p. 1 |
| Chez Tortoni: The Art Detective | p. 11 |
| A Lady and Gentleman in Black: It Was a Passion | p. 29 |
| The Concert: The Picture Habit | p. 43 |
| Cortege aux Environs de Florence: The Art of the Theft | p. 63 |
| Landscape with an Obelisk: Something That Big | p. 77 |
| Ku: Unfinished Business | ... MORE |
| Three Mounted Jockeys: Infiltrate and infatuate | p. 109 |
| Self-Portrait: I Was the One | p. 133 |
| Program for an Artistic Soiree: Any News on Your Side | p. 155 |
| Program for an Artistic Soiree II: Where's Whitey? | p. 171 |
| La Sortie de Pesage: Put My Picture on the Cover | p. 189 |
| Finial: Like a Spiderweb | p. 209 |
| Sources | p. 225 |
| Bibliography | p. 243 |
| Photo Credits | p. 245 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 247 |
| Index | p. 249 |
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Ulrich Boster 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 US. Mews and World Report and is the founding editor of The Open Case, a crime magazine and web community. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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