DBT News Drop – September 21st

Someone Returned a Book They Stole 40 Years Ago, With $100 and a Groveling ApologyBooklegger, a used bookstore in Eureka, California, recently opened an anonymous package and found a small act of decades-delayed penance. Inside was a collectible copy of Edward Gorey’s The Unstrung Harp, a crisp $100 bill, and a letter from someone confessing they had swiped the book from the shop roughly 40 years ago, then rediscovered it in a box while cleaning out their garage. The sender said they were thrilled the store was still in business and apologized for their “utter lack of principles.” Forty years is a long time to hang on to both a Gorey book and a guilty conscience.