[SEMCO] SPECIAL PEANUT BUTTER CLUB PRESENTATION AT WHOI JULY 17

[Joanne Tromp]

*SPECIAL PEANUT BUTTER CLUB PRESENTATION AT WHOI:*Presents author Steve 
Kurkjian who will discuss his new book “Master Thieves” on Friday, July 
17, at noon in Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water St., Woods Hole. It is a 
case defined by superlatives - the largest art theft in history, 
carrying the world’s largest reward offer, longer on the FBI’s list of 
biggest unsolved art crimes than any other save one. 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/ for years, has written a gripping account of the 
still-unsolved heist of a quarter century ago. In “Master Thieves,” 
Kurkjian reveals how the two criminal gangs battling for control of the 
Boston under-world knew of the museum’s poor security and that one had a 
motive to pull off the theft - to fashion an exchange that would result 
in the release of its leader from federal prison.Books will be for sale 
after the talk. Sponsored by the WHOI Information Office. Coffee, tea, 
and cookies served. Donations accepted*.*

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