The Gardner Heist
Twenty years ago two thieves disguised as police walked into Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner museum. An hour later they walked out with masterpieces worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Probably the biggest art theft in history, it remains unsolved, but Ulrich Boser tells Kurt he’s pretty sure he’s figured it out in his book The Gardner Heist.
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