The literary detectives at Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library managed to recover a 400-year-old Shakespeare collection valued at $30 million. Some genius dropped it off to get it "verified as genuine." Turns out it was stolen from an English university 10 years ago. Oops.
My favorite line in this AP story about the theft and recovery is this: The book remains at the Folger Library, one of the world's leading centers of Shakespearean research. Durham Police said authorities felt it would be safer there than in "an FBI warehouse next to piles of cocaine and cannabis."
Image from http://literature.sdsu.edu/coursedescriptions/spring08/shakespeare.jpg.
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