The Perfect Crime

<p class=ql-align-justify>Before 11 priceless pieces of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum a respected Italian violin maker visited the museum to inspect a rare musical instrument requiring restoration. He took measurements and photographs and reported his findings to the museum's director.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Then he disappeared.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Was the innocent invitation to the violin maker the first step in a complex plot to rob the Gardner? The museum director thinks so and hires Theo R. Perdoux an expert in worldwide art thefts to investigate.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Inspired by the actual unsolved robbery of Boston's Gardner Museum Maness spins a plausible web that races ahead like a shot. The brisk pace and clever twists offer an intriguing explanation why masterpieces worth millions have never been found.</p><p><br></p>