Overdue Book Returned After 84 Years to Helsinki Library
There’s nothing like getting lost in a good book, but one reader in Finland seems to have taken that to an extreme. Staff at a public library in Helsinki were rather surprised when a copy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Refugees” was returned to them more than eight decades after its due date. The novel, a Finnish translation of the English original, was received at Helsinki Central Library Oodi’s lobby on Monday - more than 84 years after its due date of December 26, 1939. The returned book contained the borrower’s library card, leading staff to believe that the original patron who took out the book was a businessman from the Pursimiehenkatu area of the Finnish capital. Librarian Heini Strand, who received the book at the library, shared her thoughts on the return. "The one who returned the book didn’t tell - and we didn’t ask - what was their relation to the one who originally loaned the book,” she told CNN in an email. Strand noted that it’s not uncommon for the library to rec
