Master Thieves by Stephen Kurkjian

Two men disguised as Boston Police officers trick their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after midnight, tie up the two night watchmen and make off with an estimated half billion dollars worth of artwork including three works by Rembrandt and a Vermeer masterpiece. Now 25 years after the theft, Stephen Kurkjian who was the principal reporter on the case for The Boston Globe, has written a gripping account of the still-unsolved heist of a quarter century ago.

TRUE CRIME/LOCAL HISTORY