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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
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>
> And I see that your upcoming third deals with
Seattle's Underground. At
> I understand it, newer Seattle was literally built
on top of Old
> Seattle. What happened, the water table rose?
Anyway, this seems like
> a perfect setting for a series that deals with
overlapping dimensions.
The city was built on a tide flat and then it burned down.
When they rebuilt, the city raised the streets so they could
install a sewer that didn't backflush at high tide, but it
took a while for them to finish it up, and the business
owners couldn't wait. So the original first story (and
sometimes more) is below the current street level because the
businesses had to get back to doing business long before the
city was done with the streets. It's pretty disgusting down
there, these days, but, yeah, I agree that it's a lovely
place to set a Mystery of multiple relaties.
The head historian of the Underground Tour thought it would
be kind of cool to do a mystery about the murder of a
Klondike miner whose body is found a century later in the
closed Underground, but I didn't have time to write it.
>
> I'm trying to think of where else I've read about
the Underground. I
> think it was probably a Richard Hoyt book that
introduced me to it. I
> really liked his PI books, but I kind of lost track
of him after reading
> a few of his later espionage books. I think I also
read a comic set
> there. A Green Lantern? Possibly one by Mike
Grell?
I'm not sure, alas.
Kat
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