Master thieves: the Boston gangsters who pulled off the world's greatest art heist
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Published:
New York : PublicAffairs, [2015].
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
xxii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781610394239, 1610394232, 1610394232, 9781610394239 (hardback), 9781610394239, 1610394232
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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.
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"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."--,Provided by publisher.
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Kurkjian, S. A. (2015). Master thieves: the Boston gangsters who pulled off the world's greatest art heist. First edition. PublicAffairs.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kurkjian, Stephen A. 2015. Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist. PublicAffairs.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kurkjian, Stephen A, Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist. PublicAffairs, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kurkjian, Stephen A. Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist. First edition. PublicAffairs, 2015.
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