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

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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Main Author: Kurkjian, Stephen A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
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