Black Dogs: The Possibly True Story of Classic Rock's Greatest Robbery

In July 1973, Led Zeppelin played three sold-out shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Before the final performance, $203,000 of the band’s money went missing from a safe deposit box at the Drake Hotel in what was called the single highest deposit box theft in the city’s history. The money was never recovered. Black Dogs might be the story behind the greatest rock ’n’ roll heist of all time.

The last thing nineteen-year-old Patrick Sullivan needed was a new scam. Just months earlier, ...