An Evening with author Geoffrey Kelly (Plymouth)

Thirteen Perfect Fugitives – The True Story Of The World’s Largest Art Heist, as told by the FBI Agent who investigated the case. On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art were plucked from the walls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston by two subjects posing as police officers. Over the next eighty-one minutes, they stole some of the world’s most valuable artwork, including a rare Vermeer and Rembrandt’s only known seascape; a total loss estimated at over $1 billion.

​For more than two decades, Geoffrey Kelly, one of the original members of the FBI’s elite Art Crime Team, was the lead investigator into the heist. Rather than working the case as a traditional stolen property crime, however, he framed it as a fugitive investigation. Thirteen fugitives, to be exact.

In this captivating true crime story, Geoffrey Kelly shares his insights and theories about the case, and recounts his journey to apprehend those thirteen perfect fugitives. Books will be available for purchase at the event.