When you think of a robbery at a museum, you probably picture a valuable painting, or some artifact from antiquity. But dead birds?
It happened, at the Tring Museum in Greater London. A man obsessed with exotic bird feathers stole hundreds of old bird skins from the museum and disappeared.
Enter the man obsessed with flyfishing, and we get a book: .
Author Kirk Wallace Johnson, the flyfisher, tracked the story and the players for several years for his book. He visits with details of what drove the crime.
