theft from museums

When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Barelli had spent the better part of forty years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet, but the museum's staff, the millions of visitors, as well as American presidents, royalty, and heads of state from around the world.

"England is in trouble! A priceless violin has been stolen, and there's only one person who can help: kid spy, Mac B. Mac's adventure takes him on a top-secret museum night watch and face-to-face with a mummy, zip-lining in Italy with his trusty corgi sidekick, and finally, on an undercover mission in the heart of enemy territory. But when he ends up as a captured prisoner, is the mission lost for good?"--Provided by the publisher.

When the storied Staff of Moses disappears from the Perilous Falls museum, Will Wilder becomes the primary suspect. Meanwhile, Will's friend Max is having nightmares about a dark, mysterious force that's hot on Will's trail. Will must combine his supernatural abilities and the support of his friends to find the missing staff and unmask the hidden evil before it's too late.

Examines a true crime committed by an obsessed Salmon fly-tier that involved the heist of rare bird specimens from the British Museum of Natural History in 2009. The author explores questions such as; why a person would steal dead birds, what became of the missing specimens, and had the perpetrator been brought to justice.

Examines a true crime committed by an obsessed Salmon fly-tier that involved the heist of rare bird specimens from the British Museum of Natural History in 2009. The author explores questions such as; why a person would steal dead birds, what became of the missing specimens, and had the perpetrator been brought to justice.

Every full moon, a mysterious ship is seen off the coast of Dull-on-Sea. Then, the next day, gold and jewelry are missing from homes, shops, and museums all over town. Matilda needs the Jolley-Rogers' help to investigate. Can Matilda and Jim Lad retrieve the stolen booty from the mysterious ship before the moon fades? Or will they end up stuck on board with a crew of ghostly pirates forever?.

The definitive story of the theft of thirteen masterpieces stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Musem in Boston some twenty-five years ago. Who would steal these paintings only to leave them hidden for so long? And does the theft have anything to do with Boston's notorious gang wars of the 1980's? The author reveals the identities of those he believes plotted the heist, the motive for the crime, and the details the FBI refused to discuss.

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.

In the predawn hours on a day in 1994, two thieves entered a museum in Oslo, Norway and made off with a famous painting, Edvard Munch's Scream. Norwegian police hired Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective, to recover the painting.

Atlanta museum curator Deborah Miller finds the museum owner dead in the midst of a secret cache of Greek antiquities from which she believes a priceless Mycean death mask is missing, but subsequent attempts on her life lead her to believe the killer is after something much more significant.