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

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Condition
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Release Year
2009
ISBN
9780061451836
Book Title
Gardner Heist : the True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
Item Length
9in
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Year
2009
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.9in
Author
Ulrich Boser
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), Sports
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." --Vanity Fair "The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft," The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser is a fascinating account of a brazen and amazing criminal act--a book that could help police and investigators solve the mystery of the 1990 break-in and burglary at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. "A tantalizing whodunit" (Boston Globe) and a "riveting, wonderfully vivid account [that] takes you into the underworld of obsessed art detectives, con men, and thieves" (Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting), The Gardner Heist is true crime history at its most spellbinding.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061451835
ISBN-13
9780061451836
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69554382

Product Key Features

Book Title
Gardner Heist : the True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
Author
Ulrich Boser
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), Sports
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Number of Pages
272 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
N8795.3.M4.B67 2009
Reviews
In The Gardner Heist, author Ulrich Boser offers a tantalizing whodunit as he embarks on an exhaustive search for the stolen masterpieces., "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." -- Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers "Ulrich Boser presents his solution to the [Gardner] mystery." -- Washington Post "Boser's book on it has the feel of a speedy ride down a mountain road spiked with hairpin turns." -- Christian Science Monitor "Boser has done a public service in exposing the real world of art theft: It isn't about glamour and culture - it's about greed, violence and irreparable, maddening loss." -- USA Today "Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." -- Vanity Fair "Boser offers a tantalizing whodunit as he embarks on an exhaustive search for the stolen masterpieces." -- Boston Globe "This riveting, wonderfully vivid account takes you into the underworld of obsessed art detectives, con men, and thieves, tantalizing leads and dead ends." -- Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting "A fascinating, well-researched investigation...[a] police-eye-view of an unsolved crime-the solution for which may be just around the corner." -- Noah Charney, director of the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art, and author of The Art Thief "Boser's carefully researched and brilliantly written of the 20th century's greatest art heist is too stunningly fascinating to miss." -- Phyllis Karas, author of Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob "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 rousing account of his years spent collecting clues large and smallis entertaining enough to make readers almost forget that, after 18 years,the paintings have still not been found., "Boser's carefully researched and brilliantly written of the 20th century's greatest art heist is too stunningly fascinating to miss." (Phyllis Karas, author of Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob), 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 onmy walls., Boser poetically contrasts the burning, almost unnatural desire art loversfeel for paintings with the cold reality that art theft is one of the easiestand most lucrative types of crime.
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2008-038803
Dewey Decimal
364.16/287599492
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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  • Easily Readable Account of the Famous Boston Art Heist

    In his book "The Gardner Heist," U.S. News & World Report contributing editor Ulrich Boser provides a lively account of both the robbery and the ensuing investigation. He paints a vivid portrait of the high-stakes world of art crime, interviewing FBI agents, private detectives, thieves, fences, middlemen and a variety of people involved in museums and the art market. Along the way, he fills in the history of Gardner Museum, comments on the importance of the missing works and makes perceptive observations on Boston's sometimes arcane social and cultural politics. Bosner models his approach on Edward Dolnick's "The Rescue Artist," which documented the investigation into the theft of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" in 1994. Like Dolnick, he begins in cinematic style by picturing the Gardner ...