Frederick J. Fisher The Practice Run (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

by Frederick J. Fisher

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Further Details Title: The Practice Run Condition: New Author: Frederick J. Fisher Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Format: Hardback Subtitle: How a Failed Art Heist Provided a Blueprint for the World's Largest Art Robbery EAN: 9798881805951 ISBN: 9798881805951 Release Date: 05/15/2025 Language: English Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Genre: Biography Description: On Saint Patrick’s Day, 1990, one of the largest art thefts in the world took place—the heist of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in which thirteen works of art, worth over half a billion dollars, were stolen by two thieves posing as policemen. Had there been a prior practice run for this theft? Ten years earlier, during the Christmas season, two thieves who posed as delivery men, after hijacking a FedEx van and etherizing its female driver, were thwarted in their attempt of a nearly identical robbery at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York—an art museum modeled after a one in Boston. The young mastermind of these crimes was Brian McDevitt of Swampscott, Massachusetts. He arrived in the small NY town in the spring of 1980, posing as a rich Vanderbilt heir and freelance writer. Prior to his failed heist he spent two months ingratiating himself to the museum’s director, the author of this story, in hopes of extracting vital information that would aid in his crime. The book investigates the planning and execution of The Hyde’s attempted robbery and traces McDevitt’s various escapades following his

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9798881805951
• Condition: Fine

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