The Gardner Museum Heist: Cops, Canvases, and a Very Bad Night (Art History Mystery)

In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers walked into Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—and walked out with thirteen works of art worth an estimated $500 million. The haul included a Vermeer, three Rembrandts, five works by Degas, a Manet, and, because apparently priceless masterpieces weren’t enough, the decorative top of a Napoleonic flagpole. More than three decades later, the art is still missing. No one has been charged. And the empty frames still ha...