art thefts

Henry, Anna, and Jose, the junior members of the Silver Jaguar Society, are on a mission in Paris to recover the Mona Lisa--but when senior members of the Society are taken hostage, it is up to Henry to rescue them while continuing to pursue the missing masterpiece.

"Instead of spending a carefree summer exploring downtown Boston with best friend Ollie, thirteen-year-old Moxie must solve a famous art heist in order to protect those she loves from her ailing grandfather's gangster past. Includes facts about the 1990 Gardner Museum art theft"--Provided by publisher.

"Sixth grader Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, codename "Eddie Red," has a photographic memory and talent for drawing anything he sees. When the NYPD is stumped by a mastermind art thief, Eddie becomes their secret weapon to solve the case"--Provided by publisher.

"Stanley Lambchop is whisked away to Paris, where he must help catch a mastermind art thief at the historical Louvre museum by posing as a painting"--Provided by publisher.

Presents an account of those who were part of a special force of American and British curators, art historians, museum curators, and other experts who risked their lives to prevent the destruction of cultural artifacts and structures while also trying to locate missing items that had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

Presents an account of those who were part of a special force of American and British curators, art historians, museum curators, and other experts who risked their lives to prevent the destruction of cultural artifacts and structures while also trying to locate missing items that had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

The founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team recounts his career recovering priceless art and antiquities from art thieves, scammers, and black market traders around the world.

An account of one of the twentieth century's greatest art heists that occurred in the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, when thieves posing as police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and left with a dozen masterpieces, including three Rembrandts and a Vermeer, valued at five hundred million dollars.

Collects essays that examine art crimes throughout history, discussing cases of vandalism, iconoclasm, forgery, fraud, war-time looting, archeological looting, smuggling, ransom, and more.

Traces the stories of many of the ancient treasures of the world that were looted over the past two centuries and placed in such museums as the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the British Museum; and chronicles the efforts by Egypt, Greece, Italy, and Turkey to have these items returned.