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Case File · Detective · No. 005

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The Missing Manuscript

6 min

A rare 19th-century manuscript — the only surviving copy of poet Elara Voss's unpublished collection — vanished from the Harwick Public Library's locked rare-books room overnight. The library director discovered it missing at 8:00 AM when she opened the room for a scheduled appraisal. Four people had access to the room after closing on Sunday.

Subject

Elara Voss Manuscript

A hand-bound volume of 47 poems, appraised at roughly $90,000. It was stored in a humidity-controlled glass case in the rare-books room on the library's second floor.

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