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

“Boser cracks the chilly case of the artwork world’s biggest unsolved thriller.”— Vainness Truthful

One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld: the riveting story of the 1990 Gardner Museum theft, the most important unsolved artwork theft in historical past. Good for followers of the Netflix sequence It is a Theft: The World's Greatest Artwork Heist!

Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two males broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and dedicated the most important artwork heist in historical past. They stole a dozen masterpieces, together with one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and 5 Degas. However after 1000’s of leads, lots of of interviews, and a $5 million reward, not a single portray has been recovered. Value as a lot as $500 million, the lacking masterpieces have change into the Holy Grail of the artwork world and their theft one of many nation’s most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.

Artwork detective Harold Smith labored the theft for years, and after his dying, reporter Ulrich Boser determined to select up the place he left off. Touring deep into the artwork underworld, Boser explores Smith’s unfinished leads and comes throughout a outstanding forged of characters, together with an excellent rock ‘n’ roll artwork thief and a golden-boy gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse. A story of artwork and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling because the stolen masterpieces themselves.