 Mystery: August 24, 2005 Issue [#573] |
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Something mysterious is lurking out there ... just beyond the edges of your peripheral vision. What is it? Did that shadow move? Is that cigarette smoke I smell? Whose footsteps are following me everywhere I go? Eyes dart every which way, trying to catch a glimpse of the danger that lurks ... out there.
Such are the panicked feelings and thoughts of the victim in a mystery story...
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School will be starting up again in September for the little kiddies around here, as well as us older kiddies who teach them. I am looking forward to going back, primarily for the paychecks that will start flowing my way again midway through the first month, and I have had things on my mind for the past week or so, like decorating my classroom, unpacking supplies, and getting my schedule and class lists. I have also been thinking about mysteries and how a school would be the perfect setting for a kidnapping/murder mystery to take place.
Schools are supposed to be safe havens for our children. Parents have no qualms about sending there children to various educational establishments for seven or more hours a day, five days a week. So, what do you think would happen if a kidnapping/murder took place right on school grounds in the middle of a typical school day? A definite breaking of routine? -- to say the least!
Several writers have written mysteries that take place in and around schools. Diane Mott Davidson has two Goldy Bear/Schultz mysteries that center on the prep school Goldy's son attends, Dying for Chocolate and The Cereal Murders -- in one, Goldy caters a funeral for one of her son's teachers during which someone dies of poisoning, and in the other, the school's valedictorian is brutally murdered. In both, Goldy works hard not only to whip up a meal, but also to whip the murder investigation into shape and find the murderer.
Mark Cohen's The Fractal Murders centers on the deaths of three mathematics professors at various universities across America. The common links seem to be that all three were experts in fractal geometry, a highly specialized field of mathematics, and all of them have worked or studied at Harvard at one time or another during their lives. While the murders do not necessarily take place on campus, the college connection and educational pasts of the professors are necessary for the solution of the murders.
Others who have written mysteries that have an educational connection are Robert B. Parker School Days, Mary Higgins Clark Nighttime Is My Time, and Leslie Meier Back to School Murder. While many of the school-based mysteries are written for children, for whom school is a second home, there are many that are geared toward the adults among us, and if you write mysteries, it is a venue that should not be ignored as a possible setting for a story.
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