Book 2019
Feather Thief
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- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Theft from museums
- Natural history museums
- Zoological specimens
- Fly tying
- Case studies
- Criminal investigation
- Natural History Museum (London
- England)
On a cool June evening in 2009, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist grabbed hundreds of bird skins - some collected 150 years earlier - and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? This is the gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice.