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FROM: Martha Hansen <[removed]@nils.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 3:03 PM

Quick! I need a few suggestions for really GOOD adult mysteries involving
the search for buried treasure, for our April mystery reading group. I've
already selected Landscape of Lies (Watson) and need to two more titles. Do
not have to be contemporary.

TIA!
Martha Hansen Woodstock Public Library

FROM: "Corky Lee" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 3:03 PM

How about some of Clive Cussler's titles? They usually involve
some kind of hunt for treasure.


Quick! I need a few suggestions for really GOOD adult mysteries involving
the search for buried treasure, for our April mystery reading group. I've
already selected Landscape of Lies (Watson) and need to two more titles. Do
not have to be contemporary.

TIA!
Martha Hansen Woodstock Public Library

Corky Lee
Readers' Services
Des Plaines Public Library
1501 Ellinwood St.
Des Plaines, IL 60016
847-376-2811
[removed]@desplaines.lib.us.il

FROM: "Gayle Richardson" <[removed]@spl.org>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 3:14 PM

Does Rumer Godden's CHINA COURT have a mystery angle about a long-buried
valuable book....or some such?? I have the vaguest recollection that there was something
valuable in a grave....maybe you have copies (it was re-released a few years ago in a
nice trade pb edition, now out of print) that you could follow this up with. Gayle Richardson

>>> [removed]@nils.lib.il.us 03/07/01 12:51 PM >>>
Quick! I need a few suggestions for really GOOD adult mysteries involving
the search for buried treasure, for our April mystery reading group. I've
already selected Landscape of Lies (Watson) and need to two more titles. Do
not have to be contemporary.

TIA!
Martha Hansen Woodstock Public Library

FROM: Ligonier Valley Library <[removed]@wpa.net>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 3:24 PM

Martha:
"Thunderhead" by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston (authors of "Relic") is
about an archaeolgical expedition looking for Coronado's Lost City of Gold. It
has plenty of action. Another old favorite of mine is "Crocodile on the
Sandbank" by Elizabeth Peters. Most of her Amelia Peabody mysteries are set in
Egypt during archaeological excavations.

Martha Hansen wrote:

> Quick! I need a few suggestions for really GOOD adult mysteries involving
> the search for buried treasure, for our April mystery reading group. I've
> already selected Landscape of Lies (Watson) and need to two more titles. Do
> not have to be contemporary.
>
> TIA!
> Martha Hansen Woodstock Public Library
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Erin Saylor - LIBRARYX <[removed]@mail.maricopa.gov>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 3:35 PM

"Riptide" also by Preston & Child involves a search for treasure buried on a
booby-trapped island off the coast of Maine (a take-off of the real mystery
of the treasure supposedly buried on Oak Island off of Nova Scotia's coast).

Erin B. Saylor

Adult Services Librarian
North Central Regional Branch
Maricopa County Library System
17811 N. 32nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85032
(602)506-0189


-----Original Message-----
From: Ligonier Valley Library [[removed]@wpa.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:22 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Buried treasure mysteries


Martha:
"Thunderhead" by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston (authors of "Relic") is
about an archaeolgical expedition looking for Coronado's Lost City of Gold.
It
has plenty of action. Another old favorite of mine is "Crocodile on the
Sandbank" by Elizabeth Peters. Most of her Amelia Peabody mysteries are set
in
Egypt during archaeological excavations.

Martha Hansen wrote:

> Quick! I need a few suggestions for really GOOD adult mysteries involving
> the search for buried treasure, for our April mystery reading group. I've
> already selected Landscape of Lies (Watson) and need to two more titles.
Do
> not have to be contemporary.
>
> TIA!
> Martha Hansen Woodstock Public Library
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 3:45 PM

Does buried at sea count? I would suggest Clive Cussler's "Night probe" and
"Raise the Titanic." The first one is about a train that is sunk when a
bridge collapses that contains an important secret regarding the Civil War
and the second (written a long time before the ship was even found) is an
adventure about finding the Titanic and raising it from the bottom of the
ocean.
HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martha Hansen [[removed]@nils.lib.il.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:56 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Buried treasure mysteries
>
> Quick! I need a few suggestions for really GOOD adult mysteries involving
> the search for buried treasure, for our April mystery reading group. I've
> already selected Landscape of Lies (Watson) and need to two more titles.
> Do
> not have to be contemporary.
>
> TIA!
> Martha Hansen Woodstock Public Library
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 4:06 PM

Would searching for archeological treasures count? If so, you must include
one of the Amelia Peabody mysteries by Elizabeth Peters. Also by Peters,
the Vicky Bliss mystery _Borrower of the night_ is all about various art
historians conspiring against each other to be the first to locate a long
missing priceless medieval altarpiece somewhere in a German castle.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Gayle Richardson
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 4:01 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Buried treasure mysteries


Does Rumer Godden's CHINA COURT have a mystery angle about a long-buried
valuable book....or some such?? I have the vaguest recollection that there
was something
valuable in a grave....maybe you have copies (it was re-released a few years
ago in a
nice trade pb edition, now out of print) that you could follow this up with.
Gayle Richardson

>>> [removed]@nils.lib.il.us 03/07/01 12:51 PM >>>
Quick! I need a few suggestions for really GOOD adult mysteries involving
the search for buried treasure, for our April mystery reading group. I've
already selected Landscape of Lies (Watson) and need to two more titles. Do
not have to be contemporary.

TIA!
Martha Hansen Woodstock Public Library

FROM: LaVista <[removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 5:07 PM

How about "Plum Island" by Nelson DeMille. It's not classified as a
mystery, but there is buried treasure in it.
S LaVista
Westhampton Free Library

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Martha Hansen wrote:

> Quick! I need a few suggestions for really GOOD adult mysteries involving
> the search for buried treasure, for our April mystery reading group. I've
> already selected Landscape of Lies (Watson) and need to two more titles. Do
> not have to be contemporary.
>
> TIA!
> Martha Hansen Woodstock Public Library
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Melissa Norton <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 6:53 PM

Not strictly buried treasure in theme, but how about
Lyn Hamilton's archaeological mystery series (MOCHE
WARRIOR, CELTIC RIDDLE, new release AFRICAN QUEST,
etc.) or the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth
Peters?
Melissa

--- Gayle Richardson <[removed]@spl.org> wrote:
> Does Rumer Godden's CHINA COURT have a mystery angle
> about a long-buried
> valuable book....or some such?? I have the vaguest
> recollection that there was something
> valuable in a grave....maybe you have copies (it was
> re-released a few years ago in a
> nice trade pb edition, now out of print) that you
> could follow this up with. Gayle Richardson
>
> >>> [removed]@nils.lib.il.us 03/07/01 12:51 PM >>>
> Quick! I need a few suggestions for really GOOD
> adult mysteries involving
> the search for buried treasure, for our April
> mystery reading group. I've
> already selected Landscape of Lies (Watson) and need
> to two more titles. Do
> not have to be contemporary.
>
> TIA!
> Martha Hansen Woodstock Public Library
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L:
> http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>
>
>
>
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FROM: Jaffe <[removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 7:04 PM

How about Plum Island by Nelson Demille.

Karen Jaffe
Comsewogue Public Library

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/7/01, 8:49 PM

1) If the treasure doesn't have to be buried, what about Dashiell Hammett's
classic mystery <The Maltese Falcon>? I loved this one when I read it as a
child...

2) For an erudite group, the following book would not meet the definition of
"very good," but, for a conservative group which likes inspirational fiction,
it might...
It's called <The Book of Hours,> by T. Davis Bunn--has a hidden treasure, a
romance, and a Mitfordian sensibility. Here's some plot summary info from
amazon.com: "From the first words, I was riveted by The Book of Hours. It's
the story of a man who has lost his wife and who is, himself, recovering from
a tropical disease. His life is further wrecked when he goes to claim an
eccentric mansion that was left to him by his wife's aunt, only to find that
there are exorbitant outstanding death taxes on it. He finds his first
friendship in a lady doctor who resides in Rose Cottage, what used to be the
gatekeeper's house on the mansion's grounds. She assists him when he finds a
letter left to him by the old aunt, which both apologizes to him for her past
behavior and gives him the first of many clues to a puzzle that might
eventually save him from the poor house."

In a message dated 3/7/01 7:34:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@maillist.webrary.org writes:

<< On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Martha Hansen wrote:

> Quick! I need a few suggestions for really GOOD adult mysteries involving
> the search for buried treasure, for our April mystery reading group. I've
> already selected Landscape of Lies (Watson) and need to two more titles. Do
> not have to be contemporary.
>
> TIA!
> Martha Hansen Woodstock Public Library
> >>


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FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 8:28 AM

A loose fit, but it would work-- Nevada Barr's "A Superior Death."

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 10:25 AM

At 02:56 PM 3/7/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Quick! I need a few suggestions for really GOOD adult mysteries involving
>the search for buried treasure, for our April mystery reading group. I've
>already selected Landscape of Lies (Watson) and need to two more titles. Do
>not have to be contemporary.
>
>TIA!
>Martha Hansen Woodstock Public Library


Since you don't specify "novel-length," I'll note a couple of short
classics: "The Gold Bug" by Poe and "The Musgrave Ritual" by Doyle.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

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