Article: Gardner art theft suspect is study in intrigue

There was a day last autumn when Brian McDevitt, sitting in the office of his small loft house in Hollywood Hills, proposed writing a screenplay about a brazen art theft during which the thieves hid the stolen treasures deep in a German cave.

Just a few weeks later, McDevitt found himself at the center of an investigation into the largest art theft in history, when the FBI summoned him back to his lawyer's Salem office and asked him what he knew about $200 million in paintings missing from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

McDevitt's lawyer said yesterday that his client, who was convicted in a similar, but bungled art robbery in upstate New York in 1980, knows nothing of the ...

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