The Gardner Heist — Ulrich Boser

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'The Gardner Heist' — Ulrich Boser 'The Gardner Heist' tells the story of the audacious 1990 theft from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in which two men posing as police officers stole 13 works of art, including paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Degas. Journalist Ulrich Boser takes up the investigation after the death of art detective Harold Smith, following his unfinished leads into the world of art crime and the Boston underworld. Alongside the missing masterpieces, Boser explores the remarkable life of Isabella Stewart Gardner and the obsessive efforts to recover the stolen works. First published in 2009, the book combines investigative journalism, art history and true crime to examine one of the most famous unsolved art thefts in history.