Stealing art from a museum is usually a bone-headed thing to do. Even the least scrupulous collectors know better than to buy goods that are so recognizably hot. Many museum heists are committed by career criminals who are far better at figuring out how to defeat security systems than they are at planning what they’ll do next. They’re soon caught, whether turned in by an honest dealer or snared in a sting. Yet Myles Connor is one of the very few people alive to have come out ahead after lifting an artwork from the wall of a museum, as anthonymamore explores in his new book “The Rembrandt Heist: The Story of a Criminal Genius, a Stolen Masterpiece, and an Enigmatic Friendship.” Through the 1960s, Connor spent his working hours orchestrating bank thefts and importing cocaine, and his leisure time collecting art. Many of his acquisitions were legitimate purchases, but he couldn’t resist the odd art theft. Connor, who estimates that he stole from 30 museums and private collections, later...