Sleuths probing betrayal of Anne Frank snag a book deal

HarperCollins buys rights to story of investigative team looking into decades-long mystery over how the Jewish family’s attic hideout in Amsterdam was discovered in 1944

By AP 4 May 2018, 1:20 am

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Anne Frank, aged 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941. (public domain)

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 Otto Frank later found her diary, which has sold millions of copies.

The publisher acquired world rights to the book.