Wow, that reminds me a of used book I read as a kid that had several key pages missing and somehow I didn’t notice until the mystery plot simply went nowhere. The last chapter was pretty much characters leaving for home and saying their goodbyes with no reference to the mystery. I have to wonder now if someone was devious enough to remove those pages in a sort of literary vandalism.
Speaking of vandalism, did anyone encounter video sabotage back in the golden age of VHS? For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, some fiend would cover the record notch on a rental tape and insert inappropriate footage at a key moment in a film or erase an imporant scene entirely. Happened to me once with the key scene at the end of Jason Goes to Hell. I didn’t mention it to the video store for fear I would be on the hook for a $80 tape. Priced for rental sucked so hard back then.