I've an exciting new idea for another book. It would be something like "The Murders of McCone County." In my lifetime there have been at least five murders or suspicious "suicides" in this remote, thinly populated Montana county, my childhood home, (and adjoining Garfield County.) In addition, there have been scandals and intrigue: A rancher with Las Vegas ties slaughtering several extremely valuable race horses and concealing the carcasses in a lake; a woman involved in a highway accident vanishing from the scene under the very eyes of the responding law enforcement officers; the Garfield County Freemen; many others that escape me at the moment. Doing the research alone for such a book might take the rest of my life! But what fun, reading trial transcripts, police records, archived newspapers, etc. My mother's diaries would be VERY helpful--she chronicled many of these events when they happened. I've always loved True Crime stories, especially when the perp is caught. Any idea where that came from?

Ideas like this stimulate me to finish my group of essays, so I can start something else.