All's well that ends well
A 400 hear old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and valued at 30 million has been recovered after a man walked into a library in Washington,D.D. and asked to have it authenticated. The Shakespeare folio was among seven centuries-old books and manuscripts stolen in December 1998 from a display case at the Durham University library in northeast England. Police said the man claimed to be an international businessman when he took the book to the Folger Library. He said he bought the volume in Cuba. Library staff asked to keep the book while they did research and later discovered it was stolen - they then call the FBI. The book is being kept in a climate-controlled vault at the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. Authorities thought it would be safer there than in an FBI warehouse next to piles of cocaineand cannabis.
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