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FROM: Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
REC'D: 3/19/03, 11:19 AM

I hope this sounds familiar to someone. This is a request from another list.
No one responded, so I thought I would try the collective Fiction L brain.
Here it is:

"The book is about a boy who inherited a ton of money from an old guy he'd
done something nice for or been nice to. He got to move into the guy's
mansion and he got these videotaped messages from the dead rich guy. I
remember that the whole house was automated and the computer core was in the
subbasement. The line that has stuck with me all these years is part of a
clue that the old man left for the boy... "Where ignorant armies clash by
night." The boy finally figured out that he meant the video game room. "

Keeping my fingers crossed,

Wendy Isom
Arlington Public Library
Arlington, Texas

FROM: "Jones, Alissa" <[removed]@uhls.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 3/21/03, 8:22 AM

Patron's description isn't exactly right but it sounds like it could be the
Westing Game by Ellen Raskin... one of my favorites when I was younger.
There are many heirs not just one, but they do follow clues and there's a
mansion...

Alissa Jones
Reference Library Clerk
Guilderland Public Library
2228 Western Avenue
Guilderland, NY 12084
518-456-2400 x7

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Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:18 PM
To: Fiction_L
Cc: 'Lindsay Brunner'
Subject: teen inherits mansion and money for good deed done

I hope this sounds familiar to someone. This is a request from another list.
No one responded, so I thought I would try the collective Fiction L brain.
Here it is:

"The book is about a boy who inherited a ton of money from an old guy he'd
done something nice for or been nice to. He got to move into the guy's
mansion and he got these videotaped messages from the dead rich guy. I
remember that the whole house was automated and the computer core was in the
subbasement. The line that has stuck with me all these years is part of a
clue that the old man left for the boy... "Where ignorant armies clash by
night." The boy finally figured out that he meant the video game room. "

Keeping my fingers crossed,

Wendy Isom
Arlington Public Library
Arlington, Texas

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