In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body.
His death was as dramatic as the Rare Book dealer\'s life, which read, as the Austin American-Statesman declared, "like a bestseller." In 1975 Jenkins had staged the largest Rare Book coup of the twentieth century--the purchase, for more than two million dollars, of the legendary Eberstadt inventory of Rare Americana.
Her "catch" was the corpse of Johnny Jenkins, shot in the head.
In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body