The Accidental Picasso Thief
The True Story of a Reverse Heist, Outrunning the FBI, and Fleeing the Boston Mob
The Accidental Picasso Thief
The True Story of a Reverse Heist, Outrunning the FBI, and Fleeing the Boston Mob
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Description
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 gallery-but instead ended up in the closet of Bill Rummel, a young forklift operator.
What followed was a stranger-than-fiction 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 again-vanishing 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 secrecy-and one man's decades-long search for a lost masterpiece.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | 22 Jan 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 168 |
| ISBN | 9798765188262 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Association for Research into Crimes Against Art |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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