Goodreads asked Pamela Poole:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Pamela Poole I have a fascinating ancestor that lived in the early-mid 1800's who was brilliant and multi-talented, and kept a journal in code before Edgar Allen Poe wrote about such things. A historian in the mid 1900's picked up what remained of those journals when they were put out as trash, and it became his mission to deciper them and track down what he could about this man. He published a book about his findings, but it's no longer in print and I had to jot down notes when I had time to visit a library geneology room that is out of town. Perhaps someday I can get my hands on one and have a lot of story ideas!

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