He handled the money. He paid the authors. He managed the accounts.

For seven years, nobody questioned him.

Between 2011 and 2018, a trusted bookkeeper at one of New York's most storied literary agencies quietly transferred $3.4 million out of the accounts he managed and into his own. His victims included the author of Fight Club, the estate of the man who wrote The Godfather, and the heirs of some of the most celebrated names in American literature.

He didn't hack anything. He didn't forge anything. He just moved the money and changed the numbers.

And when it finally came apart, it didn't just cost his victims their royalties. It took a 49-year-old institution down with it.

This week on Plot Twist, listen in as we discuss the quiet crime that killed a literary legend.