A library book overdue by a whopping 59 years has been returned with a very apologetic note from the borrower - and the timing was no coincidence.
The team at Montague Public Libraries in Massachusetts, America, has welcomed home a copy of Alfred Hitchcock's The Mystery of the Green Ghost that was signed out in 1967.
It would have cost the reader nearly six decades' worth of fines, which had added up to a staggering $1,606 (£1,336).
