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Kurkjian, Stephen A.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Art thefts -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Theft from museums -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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Kurkjian, Stephen A.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Art thefts -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Theft from museums -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
MARC Display
Master
thieves
: the
Boston
gangsters
who
pulled
off
the
world
's
greatest
art
heist
/ Stephen Kurkjian.
by
Kurkjian, Stephen A.
PublicAffairs, c2015.
Call #:
364.16287 K96m
Subjects
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Art
thefts -- Massachusetts --
Boston
.
Theft from museums -- Massachusetts --
Boston
.
ISBN:
9781610394239 (hc)
1610394232 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxii, 247 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
A definitive account of the
Boston
criminal underworld'
s
role in the infamous $500 million Gardner Museum
art
theft traces the contributions of
master
thief Louis Royce and gangster Ralph Rossetti while examining the FBI'
s
controversial announcement that they had identified the responsible parties.
"In a secret meeting in 1981, a
master
thief named Louis Royce gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime. As a kid, Royce had visited the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and made a habit of sneaking in at night to find a good place to sleep. He knew the Museum's security was lax, and he gave this information to a boss of the
Boston
criminal underworld. It took years before the Museum was hit. But when it finally happened, it quickly became one of the most infamous
art
heists in history: 13 works of
art
valued at up to $500 million--including Rembrandt'
s
"The Storm on the Sea of Galilee." The identity of the
thieves
were a mystery, the paintings were never found. What happened in those intervening years? Which
Boston
crew landed the big score? And why, more than 20 years later, did the FBI issue a press conference stating that they knew
who
had
pulled
off
the
heist
and what had happened to the artwork, but provided no identities and scant details? These mysteries are the story of Kurkjian'
s
revealing book. The best and longest-tenured reporter on this case, and one of the most decorated investigative reporters in America, Kurkjian will reveal the identities of this
who
plotted the
heist
, the motive for the crime, and the details that the FBI refused to reveal. He will take the reader deep into the
Boston
mob, and paint the most complete and compelling picture of this story ever told"--From publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
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