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In a midnight break-in on March 18, 1990, two thieves stole a dozen masterpieces—including a Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas—from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a haul worth $500 million that has never been recovered. The book follows art detective Harold Smith’s decades‑long pursuit, culminating in reporter Ulrich Boser’s continuation of the case after Smith’s death. Boser delves into the Boston underworld, examines Smith’s unfinished leads, and encounters figures such as a flamboyant rock‑’n‑roll art thief, a self‑declared innocent gangster, and mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. Through meticulous research, Boser cracks one of the case’s biggest mysteries and identifies the robbers, bringing new insight into the nation’s most extraordinary unsolved art crime.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Crime Fiction/Heist Fiction
Authors: Ulrich Boser
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