Barnes & Noble The Accidental Picasso Thief: True Story of a Reverse Heist, Outrunning FBI, and Fleeing Boston Mob at Hamilton Place in Chattanooga, TN
In 1969, during a Boston snowstorm, a crate containing Pablo Picasso's Portrait of a Woman and a Musketeer vanished from Logan Airport. It should have gone to a Milwaukee gallerybut instead ended up in the closet of Bill Rummel, a young forklift operator.What followed was a strangerthanfiction chain of events: FBI agents on the hunt, whispers of Whitey Bulger's mob, and a daring “reverse heist” devised by Bill's father to secretly return the painting. But the mystery didn't end there. After its return, the Picasso disappeared againvanishing into private hands, unseen by the public for more than fifty years. Part true crime, part memoir, The Accidental Picasso Thief uncovers the Rummel family's incredible brush with art history, crime, and secrecyand one man's decadeslong search for a lost masterpiece.
In 1969, during a Boston snowstorm, a crate containing Pablo Picasso's Portrait of a Woman and a Musketeer vanished from Logan Airport. It should have gone to a Milwaukee gallerybut instead ended up in the closet of Bill Rummel, a young forklift operator.What followed was a strangerthanfiction chain of events: FBI agents on the hunt, whispers of Whitey Bulger's mob, and a daring “reverse heist” devised by Bill's father to secretly return the painting. But the mystery didn't end there. After its return, the Picasso disappeared againvanishing into private hands, unseen by the public for more than fifty years. Part true crime, part memoir, The Accidental Picasso Thief uncovers the Rummel family's incredible brush with art history, crime, and secrecyand one man's decadeslong search for a lost masterpiece.
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