London, May 08: Four people were being questioned today by police investigating the suspected theft of manuscripts of J K Rowling's eagerly-awaited new Harry Potter book. Suffolk police said they arrested two 16-year-old boys and a 44-year-old man in Beccles, Suffolk, and an 18-year-old man in Harleston, Norfolk, late yesterday night. They were being held on suspicion of the theft of manuscripts of "Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix" and attempting to obtain property by deception. All four individuals were taken to a police station in Suffolk, in the south of England, for questioning, a Suffolk police spokeswoman said.
Bloomsbury, publisher of the Harry Potter series, is due to publish "The Order Of The Phoenix" in June.

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