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Post by brambler on Apr 4, 2017 15:23:12 GMT -5
1. Nelson Ware anagram – New Orleans
2. Earl Snowen anagram – New Orleans
3. Larson A. Harisp anagram – Orleans Parish
4. Aaron Philress anagram – Orleans Parish
5. Hijacking Story
6. Big Easy Globetrotter
7. Houdini’s plunge into the Mississippi in NOLA
8. Fletch Lives (Chevy Chase) movie is set in New Orleans
9. St. Ann Marie Antoinette Inn/Hotel
10. Bourbon Street
11. Cayenne Pepper/French creole culture
12. Charlton Heston's role as New Orleans Saints QB
13. The talk about the Saints in the book. Reference to New Orleans Saints?
14. Walt Whitman reference (thanks tpm)
15. NCIS/Nightwatch
It seems pretty blatant to me. There could always be a twist, but I'm banking on NOLA.
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Post by tpm on Apr 5, 2017 7:28:25 GMT -5
Nice list! I'll add the Walt Whitman reference - he famously took a trip to New Orleans and worked as a newspaper writer...same as Nelson? The book mentioned he started out as a newspaper writer, assuming he's lived in New Orleans the entire time.
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Post by brambler on Apr 5, 2017 12:37:16 GMT -5
Nice list! I'll add the Walt Whitman reference - he famously took a trip to New Orleans and worked as a newspaper writer...same as Nelson? The book mentioned he started out as a newspaper writer, assuming he's lived in New Orleans the entire time. Thanks! Good catch with Walt Whitman.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Apr 5, 2017 14:07:53 GMT -5
I haven't read any of the Fletch mysteries, but doing a little poking around online I have yet to find one set in New Orleans. One is set in Boston, one in Africa, one in L.A., another in Brazil. Which ones are set in New Orleans?
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Post by brambler on Apr 5, 2017 15:22:09 GMT -5
Ah, the movie where Chevy Chase plays Fletch (Fletch Lives). I must have confused the books with the movie. Thanks for pointing that out!
This is from the wiki:
"Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher (Chevy Chase) is one of the best investigative reporters in the country, and he'll need all his skill when he becomes the main suspect in a murder case. After inheriting a Louisiana plantation from a distant relative, Fletch makes the journey from Los Angeles to check it out. When he winds up in bed with a lawyer -- who in turn winds up dead the next morning -- Fletch has to solve the crime before he ends up behind bars for someone else's misdeed. Initial release: 1989"
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Post by zaphod73491 on Apr 5, 2017 16:43:33 GMT -5
Brambler: That movie was in Louisiana, but I don't believe it was New Orleans. Could still be a clue to the state.
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Post by brambler on Apr 7, 2017 17:54:24 GMT -5
Brambler: That movie was in Louisiana, but I don't believe it was New Orleans. Could still be a clue to the state. Yeah, lots of Louisiana clues. Thibodaux in Louisiana, by the way. Quite close to NOLA.
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Post by thetictocman on Apr 14, 2017 15:54:04 GMT -5
Few more I've noticed:
1) $701,500 (Sue's rubies), drop the last zero, and 70150 is a zip code for New Orleans. It's a P.O. zip code for 80 something businesses in the area of the Superdome.
2) The Mercedes that Tom's brother got a loan for... Mercedes is the new name of the superdome. Also he says "financed", not "loan", but its the same thing. LOAN anagrams to NOLA.
3) 3 references to the Lotus, aka Lily. Fleur-de-lis is a big symbol of NOLA.
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Post by astree on Apr 15, 2017 7:30:29 GMT -5
Few more I've noticed: 1) $701,500 (Sue's rubies), drop the last zero, and 70150 is a zip code for New Orleans. It's a P.O. zip code for 80 something businesses in the area of the Superdome. 2) The Mercedes that Tom's brother got a loan for... Mercedes is the new name of the superdome. Also he says "financed", not "loan", but its the same thing. LOAN anagrams to NOLA. 3) 3 references to the Lotus, aka Lily. Fleur-de-lis is a big symbol of NOLA.
LOAN is on the left margin of p. 97.
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Post by thetictocman on Apr 15, 2017 11:17:47 GMT -5
LOAN is on the left margin of p. 97.
I really need to get the hardcopy since I'm missing out on stuff like this. Just like your other new post about reading down the ABC chapter for the hodaddy clue. Kindle messes up the margins and gives no page numbers. Hope I'm not missing out on any real clues.
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Post by brambler on Apr 15, 2017 12:16:48 GMT -5
LOAN is on the left margin of p. 97.
I really need to get the hardcopy since I'm missing out on stuff like this. Just like your other new post about reading down the ABC chapter for the hodaddy clue. Kindle messes up the margins and gives no page numbers. Hope I'm not missing out on any real clues. Hmm I hadn't considered this. Kindle does skew things so much!
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Post by astree on Apr 16, 2017 7:24:20 GMT -5
If Pete was careful in the puzzle design, the Kindle version should work just as well as the hard copy version. But there are many dozens (hundreds?) of finds that seem contextually significant (like the LOAN showing up in a section where lack of enough money for a haircut is being discussed).
It’s not clear how many of these are “random” (but there are so many the odds are against it), how many are intended red herrings, or what. What do you do with a line that says Nels had an APARTMENT full of TEA, and the only anagram I can find (if there should be an anagram) is
MR PANT TEA ?
Should that tie into anything later?
I FAIL, A “CANNOT” at the front end of a Paraliminal book? What ?
It would have been a much more realistic hunt if we were told something like… Ch 22 and 23 are where the real clues are, and the rest of the book gives hints about how to use those blatant clues.
Even those clues contain exact information that leads to specific places … not one place.
I keep drifting back to Pete’s words that “I think the puzzle will be solved by someone who just reads the story and uses intuition to solve it” (or some words like that).
He did warn about red herrings and dead ends, but I think using the whole book leads to too many.
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Post by qigongbaby on Apr 16, 2017 8:25:37 GMT -5
ASTREE anagrams to EATERS. Is this also a clue?
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Post by astree on Apr 16, 2017 8:27:27 GMT -5
ASTREE anagrams to EATERS. Is this also a clue?
That's funny, since today is EASTER.
He is using anagrams in the book. How many, and how, we don't know.
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Post by brambler on Apr 16, 2017 11:39:08 GMT -5
I keep drifting back to Pete’s words that “I think the puzzle will be solved by someone who just reads the story and uses intuition to solve it” (or some words like that). I keep thinking this as well. If I just use my "intuition" I get pulled towards New Orleans. After that, I feel I need more than intuition to solve the exact location. intuition - the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. "we shall allow our intuition to guide us" (wiki) I do have a tree in mind that fits the bill that I found with just intuition and none of the other possible clues, and it's the only one I've found that could fit without having to actually being there... but I don't think that's how this is going to be solved, is it? Or is it? Since the intention is to be quickly solved by someone who's either good a puzzles or just someone with good intuition?
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