I bought an interesting used book this weekend

[LynneSin]

Actually the book title itself isn't what is interesting but what I found in it.

So after I buy my $3 used book, I decided it was such a nice day that I was going to sit out on one of the benches along the boardwalk in Ocean City Maryland and enjoy reading my book. (I was at the beach for the night).

I open the book and it turns out the full name, address and phone number of the previous owner was in the book. I thought that was a bit odd but her last name wasn't a common one so I thought perhaps I could google the woman's name and find out anything about her.

So I did.

If I have the right person and I suspect I do, last year the woman was arrested for stabbing her husband 3 times. She also crashed into a gas pump late night and was arrested for that too.

What a neat story about the book!

[PoliticAverse]

1. Don't read the book!! n/t

[LynneSin]

3. I actually stopped about 4-5 chapters into the book

It wasn't as good as I thought. It was about this girl who worked as a hostess during the 60s in London (it was a bit semi-biographical written by a child who she had given up for adoption who found his mother's Journal). I mean I like a good story about the seedy underbelly of times gone by but after awhile it bored me and I was not keen on the non-linear chapters. Tell her story in the order it happened not jump all over the place. For me non-linear doesn't work well for biopics unless the person is clearly justifying the flashback in someway to explain for more current behaviors.

Also in the first 4-5 chapters this woman who owned the book would highlight passages and add key thoughts about the book including highlights of statements she believed in. I thought the book would give me some insight about how someone who was about 23 years old when she bought this book turned into a criminal 8-9 years later. The fact that she was first from Lower Delaware and then moved to just over the boarder to Maryland, I suspect that Meth was probably involved in the book owner's life. I saw a picture of her and she had that meth look. But the book owner stopped with the comments and thus the book became a tad bit less interesting.

[pinboy3niner]

2. When the cops come to get you, just tell them that evil book made you do it

Just like the previous owner.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Maybe it contains the secrets of the Ninth Gate

As Victor Fargas said in the wonderful Polanski film: "some books are dangerous, not to be opened with impunity."

[newcriminal]

5. We were staying at a bed and breakfast just outside of Ithaca NY for a long weekend.

We found a local small used bookstore and I picked up a book off the shelf in the true crime section (which I never read) and was interested because it was a nasty brutal murder. It so happened that the murder happened just a few houses away from our bed and breakfast, and the owner was a witness and in the book. She noticed I had the book and told us a bit about it at breakfast. I didn't sleep well all weekend.

[Callmecrazy]

6. That's such a cool story!!...

[pinboy3niner]

7. Better that the owner was a witness than the prime suspect

[PoliticAverse]

8. Yeah, did they catch the killer or was the killer still at large?... n/t

[newcriminal]

12. It was the Harris murders.

A cop killed the murderer and arrested his mother. The mother was released after 2 1/2 years because they proved the cop planted evidence. The mother won a $250,000.00 judgment against the state. The book is Good cop/Bad cop.

[PoliticAverse]

13. Ah thanks.

More on the issue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Police_Troop_C_scandal

[whistler162]

14. Sad thing is she would likely have recieved a

similart sentence without the false evidence since she used the Harris's credit card, in a store near where I live.

[rug]

9. Lol! I didn't see that coming.

[LynneSin]

10. neither did I

I was thinking of further researching about the woman. If she's in jail - I thought it would be a hoot to return the book to her.

[rug]

11. Ooh, do it. How often do you get these opportunities.

Most states have an inmate locator website.