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The author's detective work led him across America, to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world's greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is serving a life sentence for double-murder. Mark Hoffman is no ordinary murderer. Until he was incarcerated he was the world's greatest literary forger: a man who combined meticulous historical research with craftsmanship and forensic science. In 1997, one of his most accomplished forgeries, a poem by the much-loved 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson, turned up at a Sotheby's and was sold for $21,000 to the library in Dickinson's home town, Amherst. The find was the equivalent of unearthing a Shakespeare sonnet. However, Daniel Lombardo, the curator at the library in Amherst who had raised the money for the poem, was plagued by doubts. He had learned of a possible link between the poem and the notorious Mark Hoffman. 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