Master thieves: the Boston gangsters who pulled off the world's greatest art heist

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Kurkjian, Stephen A.

Kurkjian, Stephen A.

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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."--

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Non Fiction

364.162 KURKJ

Wake County Public Libraries

Athens Drive Community
East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional

9781610394239

2015

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Art thefts -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Boston (Mass.)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Theft from museums -- Massachusetts -- Boston

Master thieves : the Boston gangsters who pulled off the world's greatest art heist

Master thieves : the Boston gangsters who pulled off the world's greatest art heist / Stephen Kurkjian

Master thieves

the Boston gangsters who pulled off the world's greatest art heist

Art thefts
Theft from museums