Ulrich Boser returns to the scene of one of the most famous art robberies in recent history in The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft.

On March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole one Vermeer, three Rembrandts and five Degas works valued at $500 million. Not even the reward of $5 million offered for clues has turned up any viable leads.

Boser revisits the crime scene, looks at FBI files, and interviews a score of individuals in this attempt to expose the culprits responsible for the theft. Working from the notes of deceased art detective Harold Smith, the author turns his attention to a few "prime" suspects. His "short list" includes a golden-boy Boston hood now in prison, an American mobster who has gone missing and is the FBI's second most wanted criminal after Osama bin Laden and a former, reformed art thief who claims to know who took the paintings.

Although Boser reveals the names of those he believes committed or at least masterminded the crime, there is little conclusive proof that he is correct or even close to the truth. The case remains unsolved and none of the art work has yet to surface, so the speculation in this book is just that—speculation, and nothing more.

On the other hand, those readers curious about art theft (which seems to be on the increase) will find the "generic" sections of this book which address the problem at large very informative and interesting.