theft from museums

While visiting Washington, D.C., with her father and two friends, Nancy discovers that a treasured Mayan artifact has been stolen from the Beech Hill museum and uses her sleuthing skills to recover the piece.

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 aspolice 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.

Presents a comprehensive examination of the 1994 theft of Edvard Munch's "The Scream," a seventy-two million dollar painting stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo on the opening day of the Winter Olympics, and describes the extensive investigation led by American art detective and undercover cop, Charley Hill.