19 May 2013

The Digital Detective


by
by Leigh Lundin
bank vault


Due to the possibility of a publishing contract, I pulled the original story within hours of posting it. My apologies to one and all.

Look for Louis Willis next Sunday. Next month I return with a series on computer crimes.
Posted by Leigh Lundin at 00:00
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Location: Orlando, FL, USA

7 comments:

  1. Janice Law19 May, 2013 07:48

    You should use this in a short story!
    It's perfect

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  2. Anonymous19 May, 2013 12:10

    I agree with Janice. This is charming - as I lived many, many years in the Tennessee hills, you got it right!!! Thelma Straw in Manhattan - blogger on Crime Writers Chronicle

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  3. R.T. Lawton19 May, 2013 13:29

    Leigh, great story. Tell some more like that. And yep, write 'em up and submit 'em like Janice said.

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  4. Robert Lopresti19 May, 2013 14:31

    Great material, well told. That is thinking outside the box, as they say.

    I was interested to hear that people in the Shenandoah apparently have what we up in the northwest call a Canadian accent. When you are oot and aboot in British Columbia you hear it all the time. But there is a lot of Scottish blood up there, of course.

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  5. Leigh Lundin19 May, 2013 15:08

    Rob, as far as I recall, in that pocket between the Alleghenies and the Blue Ridge mountains, the rest of the vowels are soft and southern. I thought the same thing about 'oot', but in Criminal Brief, the hilarious (and certifiably Canadian) Ferguson brothers pointed out Canadians actually say 'oat' instead of 'oot'.

    Thank you, Thelma. It's a beautiful area, isn't it!

    Janice and RT, I hadn't thought about submitting it because the story was true, but I wasn't thinking about Readers Digest and similar markets. Hmm…

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  6. Robert Lopresti19 May, 2013 15:41

    Leigh, I have had many Canadians angrily deny that they say oot. With all due respect to our northern neighbors, they are wrong.

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  7. Ann Durwin19 May, 2013 16:20

    I'm still giggling. And I'm jealous of Molly.

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