Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
On March 18, 1990, in the early hours after St. Patrick’s Day, two men dressed as police officers walked into Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked out with over $500 million in stolen art. Vermeer’s The Concert, Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, and works by Degas and Manet disappeared without a trace. It remains the most expensive and baffling art theft in history.The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist: Art, Ambition, and Unsolved Mystery (1990) offers a gripping deep dive into the events of that night and the decades-long investigation that followed. Author James G. Edwards II masterfully blends true crime with art history, exploring how a single robbery devastated a cultural institution, shook the art world, and fueled countless theories from mob connections to inside jobs.Readers will encounter the legendary stolen works, the eccentric founder who built the museum, and the law enforcement efforts that have yielded no arrests, no recoveries, and no closure. Through historical detail and dramatic pacing, this book tells the full story behind an unsolved crime that continues to haunt and intrigue.
