Potential Route (and other) Information

[astree]

The Fletch series is discussed on p. 63; there are numerous connections one can make.

For example, Chevy Chase (the actor mentioned in the book) is also a location in Maryland (this is my home state).

Here is another angle … Sue said, when talking about “Fletch Lives”, that “mysteries often hold a big clue for ME and My lifE”
…………… this looks like a blatant pointer toward a clue
… where ME is the state abbreviation for Maine, and ME and MY are letters found in “mysteries”.

As the NEW ORLEANS and ORLEANS PARISH anagrams have been made public – it seems likely that NO is the beginning, not end, of the trip, for several reasons:

1) Nels was in his apartment christened “Bourbon Street” ( hints that he lives in New Orleans, that’s where they’re starting from ) and
2) we are told that they were traveling up from the beginning spot (and that’s hard to do if your destination is New Orleans)

Using this information, we can use further information to try to develop a route:

“mysteries of-TEN hold a big clue for me and my life”

Chevy Chase is made of TEN letters, broken into 5+5.
Route 55 head North out of New Orleans
Route 10 heads North out of New Orleans

page TEN of the book has a mystery as the last sentence:

“But is my secret qigong or tea?  I’ll never tell”

And, p. 55 of the book mentions TEN.

“mysteries of TEN hold a big clue for me and my life” (p. 63)

[astree]

Characters names hold potential information, in addition to the anagrams already exposed

LANE
LA, N.E.
Northeast Lousiana
Northeast Los Angeles (this is a geographic area marked on maps)

Nels Ware
NW (northwest)... first letters of name
SE (souteast) ... last letters of name
(remember in the story when he did the Scarecrow routine and pointed all over the place?)

Sue
Sioux

just some examples

[astree]

Remember the reference previously discussed related to Skip-Bo as a skip-letter sequence? Here's another:

break-fast TEA & BOURBON, but skip "BO"

TEA + URBON
BATON RUE

RUE BATON is a street next to DESIREE in Baton Rouge, LA near LANE's END (that one was for you, minotaur)

,,,,,,,,,,,,

BOURBON, skip BO

U R BON (French is discussed in the book, BON means "good")

U R GOOD

was that a confirmation ?

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

skipping BO both times gives

URN

interesting

[brambler]

That's really interesting. I never knew about Chevy Chase Maryland.

Sleeping Giant Mountain/Park in Ct could be along the trail. Chapter 6, it would seem that might be the location of the group. "... we were driving our gentle giant directly to a sleeping giant. Would it wake up and step on us..."

[brambler]

Apr 5, 2017 15:34:12 GMT -5 astree said:

Characters names hold potential information, in addition to the anagrams already exposed

LANE
LA, N.E.
Northeast Lousiana
Northeast Los Angeles (this is a geographic area marked on maps)

Nels Ware
NW (northwest)... first letters of name
SE (souteast) ... last letters of name
(remember in the story when he did the Scarecrow routine and pointed all over the place?)

Sue
Sioux

just some examples

In reference to the bold: The two directions mentioned in the tree poem are North and West. 

[astree]

Apr 5, 2017 15:39:15 GMT -5 brambler said:

That's really interesting. I never knew about Chevy Chase Maryland.

Sleeping Giant Mountain/Park in Ct could be along the trail. Chapter 6, it would seem that might be the location of the group. "... we were driving our gentle giant directly to a sleeping giant. Would it wake up and step on us..."

Neat, especially since he earlier talks about "the murder in Chapter 6" (see thread by that name).

[astree]

Apr 5, 2017 15:56:19 GMT -5 brambler said:

Apr 5, 2017 15:34:12 GMT -5 astree said:

Characters names hold potential information, in addition to the anagrams already exposed

LANE
LA, N.E.
Northeast Lousiana
Northeast Los Angeles (this is a geographic area marked on maps)

Nels Ware
NW (northwest)... first letters of name
SE (souteast) ... last letters of name
(remember in the story when he did the Scarecrow routine and pointed all over the place?)

Sue
Sioux

just some examples

In reference to the bold: The two directions mentioned in the tree poem are North and West. 

Good catch.

[cowlazars]

The setting in Fletch 2 is Thibodaux, LA which is 60 miles out side of New Orleans.

Another possibility is Chevy Chase was born in Manahattan NY.


Breakfast Tea and Bourbon book giveaway should be up by this weekend.