{"id":782,"date":"2010-07-11T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=782"},"modified":"2010-07-11T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T19:09:00","slug":"the-gardner-heist-the-true-story-of-the-worlds-largest-unsolved-art-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por U$ 10,19 na Amazon<\/span><\/a>. Aqui o site do autor, Ulrich Boser<\/span><\/a>. E aqui um post do b\u00aeog<\/a> em 3 de junho de 2009 com o trailer do document\u00e1rio Stolen<\/a> sobre o mesmo roubo. <\/span><\/span>

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In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, thieves posing as cops entered Bostons Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and left with a haul unrivaled in the art world, including three Rembrandts and a Vermeer, valued today at $600 million. Boser, a contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report,<\/i> turned amateur sleuth after the death of a legendary independent fine arts claims adjuster, Harold Smith, who was haunted by the Gardner robbery. Boser carried on Smiths work, pursuing leads as varied as James Whitey Bulgers Boston mob and the IRA. Along the way, he visited felons\u2014including the notorious art thief Myles Connor\u2014and Bob Wittman, the FBIs only art theft undercover agent. Bosers 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: the museum is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to their return.<\/span>
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\u201cIn The Gardner Heist, author Ulrich Boser offers a tantalizing whodunit as he embarks on an exhaustive search for the stolen masterpieces.\u201d (Boston Globe )<\/p>\n

\u201cBoser\u2019s book on it has the feel of a speedy ride down a mountain road spiked with hairpin turns. (Christian Science Monitor )<\/p>\n

\u201cUlrich Boser presents his solution to the [Gardner] mystery.\u201d (Washington Post )<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we read this. It looks like the largest theft since the Devil Rays took what should have been the Red Sox\u2019s 2008 American League championship. I don\u2019t know if those paintings ended up on eBay, but I do know they\u2019re not onmy walls.\u201d (Senator John Kerry )<\/p>\n

\u201cThe book is a thrill.\u201d (The Guardian )<\/p>\n

\u201cBoser\u2019s 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.\u201d (Publishers Weekly )<\/p>\n

\u201cArtfully done… Grade: A Minus.\u201d (Boston Herald )<\/p>\n

\u201cBoser 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.\u201d (Kirkus Reviews )<\/p>\n

\u201cBoser has produced a captivating portrait of the world\u2019s biggest unsolved art theft.\u201d (Wall Street Journal )<\/p>\n

\u201cBoser cracks the cold case of the art world\u2019s greatest unsolved mystery.\u201d (Vanity Fair )<\/p>\n

\u201cA vivid portrait of the high-stakes world of art crime.\u201d (Associated Press )<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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  • Paperback:<\/b> 272 pages<\/li>\n
  • Publisher:<\/b> Harper Paperbacks (March 16, 2010)<\/li>\n
  • Language:<\/b> English<\/li>\n
  • ISBN-10:<\/b> 0061451843<\/li>\n
  • ISBN-13:<\/b> 978-0061451843<\/li>\n
  • Product Dimensions: <\/b>7.8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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