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THE GARDNER HEIST: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST By Ulrich Boser *Mint*
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- ISBN-10
- 0061451835
- Publication Name
- Smithsonian
- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780061451836
- Book Title
- Gardner Heist : the True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Art, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- History / Contemporary (1945-), Sports
- Item Weight
- 15.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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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
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), Sports
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-038803
Dewey Edition
22
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.
Dewey Decimal
364.16/287599492
Synopsis
"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., One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld-the story behind the lost Gardner masterpieces and the art detective who swore to get them back 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, hundreds of interviews, and a $5-million reward, not a single painting has been recovered. Worth a total of $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become the Holy Grail of the art world and one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries. Art detective Harold Smith worked on the theft for years, and after his death, reporter Ulrich Boser inherited his case files. Traveling deep into the art underworld, Boser explores Smith's unfinished leads and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including the brilliant rock 'n' roll art thief; the golden-boy gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse; the deadly mobster James "Whitey" Bulger; and the Boston heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner, who stipulated in her will that nothing should ever be changed in her museum, a provision followed so closely that the empty frames of the stolen works still hang on the walls. Boser eventually cracks one of the biggest mysteries of the case and uncovers the identities of the men who robbed the museum nearly two decades ago. A tale of art and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling as the stolen masterpieces themselves., "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.
LC Classification Number
N8795.3.M4.B67 2009
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Copyright Date
2009
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