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The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft (Pap
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- 9780061451843
- ISBN
- 0061451843
- Binding
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- Book Title
- Gardner Heist : the True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Travel, True Crime
- Topic
- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 7.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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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 $5 million reward--none of the paintings have been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries. After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided 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 increasingly obsessed with the case and eventually uncovers startling new evidence about 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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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061451843
ISBN-13
9780061451843
eBay Product ID (ePID)
74231165
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gardner Heist : the True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Travel, True Crime
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
7.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
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N8795.3
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Boser's carefully researched and brilliantly written of the 20th century's greatest art heist is too stunningly fascinating to miss., 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., In The Gardner Heist, author Ulrich Boser offers a tantalizing whodunit as he embarks on an exhaustive search for the stolen masterpieces., 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., A fascinating, well-researched investigation...[a] police-eye-view of an unsolved crime-the solution for which may be just around the corner., 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 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., 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., 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 offers a tantalizing whodunit as he embarks on an exhaustive search for the stolen masterpieces., 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., This riveting, wonderfully vivid account takes you into the underworld of obsessed art detectives, con men, and thieves, tantalizing leads and dead ends.
Copyright Date
2010
Dewey Decimal
364.16/287599492
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Trade
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22
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