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Re: archives mystery provided
Drat! Now I know why Umberto Ecco impressed me so much.
Oh, well...
Kevin (the guilty in search of a good lawyer) Bunker
Student Assistant
CA State Archives
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> From: Robins, Judith[SMTP:j.robins@ASAHQ.ORG]
> Reply To: Archives & Archivists
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:11 AM
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> Subject: Re: archives mystery provided
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> Hackneyed, Kevin? Try plagerous. See "The Name of the Rose." Judy
> Robins
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bunker, Kevin
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 10:47 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: archives mystery provided
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>
> It's elementary, my dear Amy!
>
> Some nefarious patron is sneaking in and cleverly lacing
> random pages of various manuscripts (or in our case, LPs --
> legislative papers -- with a biological agent which, when
> other patrons or archives staff get a simple paper cut, start
> dropping "like flies." It's up to our dashing and intrepid
> archi-sleuth to not only solve the problem of who is
> poisoning the patronage, but to stop the villain from the deed
> while at the same time preserve the documents, for the
> poison also introduces an unknown [horrors!] acid!
>
> See? Like I said, elementary (if hackneyed)!
>
> Kevin (Weh-To Go!) V. Bunker
> Student (always ready for a good crime novel) Assistant
> CA State Archives
>
>
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> > From: Amy Marcus[SMTP:AMarcus122@AOL.COM]
> > Reply To: Archives & Archivists
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:57 AM
> > To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> > Subject: archives mystery needed
> >
> > Greetings...
> >
> > This probably happens to every archivist who fancies himself/herself a
> > writer, but I'm writing an archives mystery. I know it's been done
> > before, but in my daydreams I'm the Margaret Truman of the archives
> > mystery genre.
> >
> > I've managed to hit a snag, however, right at the beginning: I need a
> > crime! I've subscribed to the museum security network to see if I can
> get
> > any ideas of items which have ALREADY been stolen from archives...I'm
> > floundering here. Are there any other sites which would give me some
> > ideas (this is making me sound like a would-be criminal, sorry!)
> >
> > Thanks everyone!
> > Amy
> >
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