Sleuthing librarians reconstruct Franklin's collection

When it comes to literary mysteries, the death of Benjamin Franklin's library is not exactly a whodunit.

Scholars already know the collection was killed by his grandson, William Temple Franklin, who inherited most of the books and sold them for cash.

The real crime, historians say, is that there's no surviving inventory of the 4,276 volumes - a list that could provide valuable insight into Franklin's life.