Crime in History

  • Shakespeare’s First Folio has been Stolen Many, Many Times

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    Late at night on July 13th, 1972, an unknown person entered the University of Manchester’s Library and violently smashed the plate glass top of an exhibition case, stealing the contents. Inside was one of the most famous, most valuable books in existence: the library’s near-perfect edition of one of Shakespeare’s First Folios. This theft is…

  • 100 years of Supernatural Searching

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    I began writing my third novel, Hazardous Spirits during one of the many national lockdowns for Covid in the UK. At the time, my partner and I were living in a studio flat which shared every available wall with a neighbor in a block of flats. ‘Stay at home’ orders were in place until March 2021,…

  • Phonies: J.D. Salinger and Wielding Copyright as Self-Protection

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    After J.D. Salinger published his story “Hapworth 16, 1924” in The New Yorker in 1965, he decided to stop publishing his works. Although he had resigned from his nearly twenty-year-long stint in the literary spotlight, retreating to a home in Cornish, New Hampshire, and beginning a reclusive lifestyle, he assured The New York Times in…


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