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FROM: "Claudia Breland" <cbreland@nwlink.com>
REC'D: 11/21/99, 10:04 PM

In the early 1980's I remember reading a book about a town that was
submerged when a new dam was built. I think there was a mystery
(murder?), a car on the cover, and I remember an anachronism - talk
about a home pregnancy test in the 1970's. Any ideas?

FROM: "Steve Bumgarner" <chignik@gte.net>
REC'D: 11/22/99, 3:36 AM

Could it be Stuart Woods' "Under the Lake"?


----- Original Message -----
From: Claudia Breland <cbreland@nwlink.com>
To: <fiction_l@maillist.nslsilus.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 11:06 PM
Subject: underwater town


> In the early 1980's I remember reading a book about a town that was
> submerged when a new dam was built. I think there was a mystery
> (murder?), a car on the cover, and I remember an anachronism - talk
> about a home pregnancy test in the 1970's. Any ideas?
>
>

FROM: "Cynthia Orr" <Cynthia.Orr@cpl.org>
REC'D: 11/22/99, 2:36 PM

Hi, Claudia -

I don't remember the car on the cover. I think it was a picture of the
flooded town, and I don't remember the home pregnancy test either, and
come to think of it, it was written in the early 90s, but it is a
mystery!

Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb

Cindy


Claudia Breland wrote:

> In the early 1980's I remember reading a book about a town that was
> submerged when a new dam was built. I think there was a mystery
> (murder?), a car on the cover, and I remember an anachronism - talk
> about a home pregnancy test in the 1970's. Any ideas?

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FROM: "Tamatha Williams" <twilliam@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 11/22/99, 4:13 PM

> Claudia Breland wrote:
>
> > In the early 1980's I remember reading a book about a town that was
> > submerged when a new dam was built. I think there was a mystery
> > (murder?), a car on the cover, and I remember an anachronism - talk
> > about a home pregnancy test in the 1970's. Any ideas?


Hmmmm, the only submerged town book with a mystery that I can remember
is Donald Westlake's Drowned Hopes - but it's a humorous mystery. A guy
robbed a bank? and hid the money, but he got caught and went to prison.
When he gets out, he hooks up with Dortmunder and gang to get his money -
but the old town is underwater due to a dam. The con does have an
illegitimate daughter in the town. The con doesn't care - he wants his
money and wants to blow up the dam to get it - and Dortmunder has to
figure out how to save the town.


Tammy Williams
Children's Librarian
Cliffdale Library
Fayetteville NC
twilliam@cumberland.lib.nc.us

FROM: "Sarah Flowers" <sflowers@scinet.co.santa-clara.ca.us>
REC'D: 11/22/99, 10:47 PM

This might be one of the Lee Harris mysteries--I have an idea it was The
Christening Day Murder, but I don't have a copy available.

Sarah

Sarah Flowers, Community Librarian
Morgan Hill Public Library
17575 Peak Avenue, Morgan Hill CA 95037-4128
sflowers@scinet.co.santa-clara.ca.us
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FROM: "Fiction_L" <fictionl@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 11/24/99, 2:08 PM

Could this be Jane Langton's _Emily Dickinson is
Dead_?
It's in the Homer Kelly mystery series. I remember it
only vaguely, but recall that essential clues revolved
around the building of a dam that flooded a town.

Jennifer Talley
Public Services Librarian
Milan Public Library
Milan, MI
(734)439-1240

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