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Isabella Stewart Gardner: 5 books about the world's most audacious art theft

These five books – fiction and nonfiction – share a connection to the notorious March 18, 1990, theft of 13 masterworks from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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Chapter & Verse Gardner heist: Journalist Ulrich Boser discusses the history behind the famous theft

Will the paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ever reappear? Boser addresses these and other questions about the heist, including the plan the thieves may have had and why Boston takes the theft so personally.
Isabella Stewart Gardner: 5 books about the world's most audacious art theft

These five books – fiction and nonfiction – share a connection to the notorious March 18, 1990, theft of 13 masterworks from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
23 years after $500 million art heist, a breakthrough

FBI says it knows who pulled off the 1990 art heist at Boston's Isabella Steward Gardner Museum. The stolen Rembrandt, Manet, and other art works were taken to Connecticut and Philadelphia after the heist.
Red Robin "Jim Day": Free burgers for all Jims, Jamies, and Jimbos

Red Robin is giving away a free burger to people named Jim as a part of a promotion for the new Sweet Jim Beam Bacon Swiss Burger. The Red Robin promotion runs through Dec. 6.
Stealing Rembrandts, by Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg

The stranger-than-fiction truth about how and why the works of Rembrandt are so frequently stolen
Editor's choice: "Chasing Aphrodite" by Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino

How did one of the world’s wealthiest museums end up keeping company with an international coterie of thieves and thugs?
Argentina bank heist echoes Woody Allen films and Sherlock Holmes tales

In the Argentina bank heist over the weekend, a band of thieves tunneled through a 100-foot-hole into a neighboring bank and stole the contents of more than 100 safety deposit boxes.
Priceless

The founder of the FBI’s art crime team writes of his life undercover in search of stolen art.
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Classic review: The Gardner Heist

Warning: This case is "more addictive than crack."
Bestselling books the week of 3/25/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
The Gardner Heist

The story of the world’s biggest unsolved art theft.