Who stole Mona Lisa?

The Mona Lisa only became world famous after she was stolen. When she disappeared in August 1911, no one noticed at first. But when museum visitors flocked to the empty wall and laid flowers in front of it, she soon became the talk of the town. Happily returned to the Louvre, it is now one of the best-known and best-kept works of art anywhere. How could such a theft be carried out, how was it discovered and what were the perpetrator's motives? Susanna Partsch explores these questions in her book and presents many other spectacular cases besides the Mona Lisa - among them a Rembrandt that was stolen four times in a row, a getaway car full of van Goghs that fell by the wayside because of a flat tyre, or a Picasso that was stolen from the yacht of a Saudi sheik and used as a cheque in the drug-dealing and arms-dealing milieu. An exciting yet entertaining read for any art lover!