The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft

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Shortly after nighttime 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 $5 million reward—not one of the paintings have been recovered. Worth up to $500 million, the missing masterpieces have change into one of the most nation’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries.

After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser determined to take up the case. Exploring Smith’s unfinished leads, Boser travels deep into the art underworld and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including a brilliant rock ‘n’ roll thief, a gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse, and the enigmatic late Boston heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner herself. Boser becomes an increasing number of obsessed with the case and sooner or later uncovers startling new evidence concerning the identities of the thieves. A tale of art and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling as the stolen masterpieces themselves.

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