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The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,977 ratings — published 2009
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.84 — 10,546 ratings — published 2010
Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,448 ratings — published
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,767 ratings — published 2009
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,353 ratings — published 2005
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 128,323 ratings — published 2023
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as art-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,201 ratings — published 2011
Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,330 ratings — published 2006
The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,240 ratings — published 2015
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 98,539 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of Master Forgers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.95 — 732 ratings — published 2015
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.84 — 794 ratings — published 2006
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,353 ratings — published 2009
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,032 ratings — published 2010
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,996 ratings — published 2008
Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.83 — 574 ratings — published 2010
The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,598 ratings — published 2009
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,271 ratings — published 2008
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,215 ratings — published 2009
Art and Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 45 ratings — published 2009
The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.71 — 727 ratings — published 2004
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,808 ratings — published 1994
The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Thief – The Legendary True Crime Memoir of Boston's Most Infamous Criminal (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.49 — 715 ratings — published 2009
The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,882 ratings — published 2014
The Art Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.10 — 3,873 ratings — published 2007
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,242 ratings — published 2005
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 8,547 ratings — published 2008
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.85 — 364 ratings — published 2004
Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World s Greatest Art Heist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.27 — 1,195 ratings — published 2015
Caveat Emptor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,175 ratings — published 2012
The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby's-Christie Auction House Scandal (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 640 ratings — published 2004
The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.23 — 805 ratings — published 2020
Art Crime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published 1994
The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: On Stealing the World's Most Famous Painting (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.62 — 195 ratings — published 2011
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 38,442 ratings — published 2018
I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,622 ratings — published 2006
Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.50 — 48 ratings — published 2011
The Raphael Affair (Jonathan Argyll, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.59 — 4,345 ratings — published 1990
Crime and the Art Market (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.18 — 11 ratings — published
Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,239 ratings — published 2022
Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Gabriel Allon, #22)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 4.23 — 34,930 ratings — published 2022
Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.38 — 689 ratings — published 2019
Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.54 — 139 ratings — published 2016
Crimes of the Art World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2010
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,081 ratings — published 2012
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,407 ratings — published 1997
The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)
by (shelved 4 times as art-crime)
avg rating 4.36 — 31,012 ratings — published 2023
The Museum of Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 369 ratings — published 2018
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.45 — 14,496 ratings — published 2009
The Scientist and the Forger: Insights Into the Scientific Detection of Forgery in Paintings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.33 — 15 ratings — published 2015
