Stuff Happens: A Statistical Guide to the "Impossible"

In summer 1972 Anthony Hopkins was chosen to play a leading role in a film based on George Feifer's novel The Girl from Petrovka. Not having the book himself, he went to London to buy a copy but none of the main London bookstores had one. On his journey home, however, waiting for an underground train at Leicester Square station he saw a discarded book lying on the seat next to him. It was The Girl from Petrovka! The story gets even weirder.