The Medici conspiracy [electronic resource] : the illicit journey of looted antiques from Italy's tomb raiders to the world's greatest museums / Peter Watson with Cecilia Todeschini.

Prologue on Fifth Avenue
Sotheby's, Switzerland, smugglers
Connoisseurs and criminals: the passion for Greek vases
Corridor 17
Forensic archaeology in the Freeport
The paper trail, the Polaroids, and the "Cordata"
The Getty: the "Museum of the Tombaroli"
The Metropolitan in New York and other rogue museums
"Collectors are real looters"
The laundries of London and New York
Phone taps and the great rumor
The Paris raid on Robert Hecht
Raids in Zurich and Geneva, arrest and interrogations in Cyprus and Berlin
Interrogations in Los Angeles and Manhattan
The puzzle of the "orphans"
The "Cordata" continues in Egypt, Greece, Israel, and Oxford
The fall of Robin Symes
The woodcutter's archive
The trial of Giacomo Medici
Trading with Japan, trials in Rome
Operation eclipse
Conclusion: 500 million dollars + 100,000 looted tombs - Chippendale's Law
Epilogue on Fifth Avenue
Dossier.