A Literary Obsession

It's not often that we read stories about tome raiders - a.k.a - book thieves.

In a new book, journalist and author Allison Hoover Bartlett shares a strange true-crime tale of a particularly pesky book thief.

“The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective and a World of Literary Obsession,” tells the tale of John Gilkey, the book-obsessed kleptomaniac, and Ken Sanders, a book dealer and amateur detective determined to catch him.

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