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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,…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2015PublicAffairs · 247 pages · 9781610394239
Art theftsTheft from museumsIsabella Stewart Gardner MuseumTRUE CRIME / Organized CrimeNew York Times bestsellerBoston (mass.), historyTRUE CRIMEOrganized Crime