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

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

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

Statement of responsibility

Stephen Kurkjian

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Master thieves

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the Boston gangsters who pulled off the worlds greatest art heist

Creator

• Kurkjian, Stephen A
• trueKurkjian, Stephen A.

Author

• Kurkjian, Stephen A

Subject

• Art thefts -- Massachusetts | Boston
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
• trueBoston, Massachusetts
• trueCrime bosses
• trueCriminal investigation
• trueFBI agents
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• trueJournalists
• trueOrganized crime
• TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
• Theft from museums -- Massachusetts | Boston
• trueThieves
• trueTrue Crime -- Heists and Robbery
• trueTrue Crime -- Organized Crime, Mafia, and Gangs
• True crime stories
• trueArt thefts

Genre

• trueTrue Crime
• True crime stories

Language

eng

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"--

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Writing style

• trueCompelling

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

364.16/287599492

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

N8795.3.U6

LC item number

K87 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult