The feather thief : beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Johnson, Kirk W. (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, New York : Viking, [2018]
Subjects:	Rist, Edwin. Natural History Museum (London, England) Theft from museums > Great Britain > Case studies. Zoological specimens > Great Britain > Case studies. Fly tying > Great Britain > Case studies. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Prologue
Dead birds and rich men. The trials of Alfred Russel Wallace ; Lord Rothschild's museum ; The feather fever ; Birth of a movement ; The Victorian Brotherhood of Fly-tiers ; The future of fly-tying
The Tring heist. Featherless in London ; Plan for Museum Invasion.Doc ; The case of the broken window ; "A very unusual crime" ; Hot birds on a cold trail ; Fluteplayer 1988 ; Behind bars ; Rot in hell ; The diagnosis ; The Asperger's defense ; The missing skins
Truth and consequences. The 21st International Fly Tying Symposium ; The lost memory of the ocean ; Chasing leads in a time machine ; Dr. Prum's thumb drive ; "I'm not a thief" ; Three days in Norway ; Michelangelo vanishes ; Flowers in the bloodstream.