[at-l] PBS Documentary/Mystery Series---

[lbooher at pure.net (Leslie Booher)]

I like a lot of this!  It would just have to be done in such a way that it wouldn't look as though we have lots of murders on the AT.  Have all past murderers been caught?  What about the murder at Low Gap way, way back?  We don't count the ones in Shenandoah, because they really weren't AT hikers, despite the news media's blatherings.  Let's write our own scripts!  Felix, Waterfall, y'all out there?  anklebear

BTW, I do have a mystery novel called "Murder on High", by Stefanie Matteson, which is about a fictional murder on the Knife Edge trail on Katahdin.  Lots of background Baxter Park info and stuff.  It's been a good while since I read it, though.
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I've got it.  A new PBS Mystery series, "Murder along the AT".  Bear with me.  Its the story of an ATC recruiter who is thru-hiking the trail with a funky collection of characters.  He or she is to give talks every 50 miles about the AT, but the trek is interupted by illegal logging, road construction, equipment breakdown and many startling "shelter moments".  The 
title comes from a murder that took place years before, which our daring hiker, cell phone in hand, proceeds to figure out with the help of a CSI like investigation (sibling is an attractive CSI working in "pick your nearby city").  The investigation runs the length of the series, each show 
runs the length of a section.  Our daring lead hiker ends each episode with a speech to the public, a cross between Capt Kirk and Marlin Perkins.  The brief insightful talk about conservation practices woven with political commentary and inside jokes.

Episode One - "The Boots that never left Georgia"

Mark

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From: "Leslie Booher" <lbooher@pure.net>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>; "Jim Bullard" <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Well, I'm sending it


For years, I've tried to get Nevada Barr to set one of her novels on the AT.  She always sets them in a national park.  She didn't like the idea that it was a linear park, which would make it hard to write a mystery about.  However, she's now written two on the Natchez Trace, which is also linear. 
Of course, she did that because she married the man who's manager of the Mississippi section of the Natchez Trace, so she could write without leaving home.  anklebear