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Book deal for investigators of Anne Frank’s capture
NEW YORK — An investigative team looking into who betrayed Anne Frank and her family has a book deal.
“Anne Frank: A Cold Case Diary” will be published in the summer of 2020, HarperCollins Publishers told The Associated Press on Thursday. The book was among the most talked about at last month’s London Book Fair.
Former FBI agent Vincent Pankoke has been leading an international effort to solve the decades-long mystery over how the Jewish family’s attic hideout in Amsterdam was discovered in 1944. Anne Frank was sent to a concentration camp and died the following year. Her father later found her diary, which has sold millions of copies.
George Harrison’s first electric guitar up for auction
NEW YORK — George Harrison’s first electric guitar is up for auction.
Julien’s Auctions says Harrison played the Hoffner Club 40 when The Beatles played around Liverpool, England, as The Quarrymen. Harrison traded his acoustic guitar for the electric model with Ray Ennis, who was a member of The Swinging Blue Jeans.
Harrison donated it to a band competition in 1965 and it was won by a member of a German band who died in 2017. His widow is putting it up for auction.
The auction house estimates the guitar will sell for between $200,000 and $300,000.