The Septimus Notes

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

|What if Nancy Drew and Party Girl had a baby?|

Today at work we got this shriveled older woman at work who was very upset. She is a deputy borrower for some professor or other and the library wouldn't let her take out the requested books for this reason or that. Anyway, seeing this woman... it was as if a Muse had condescended to bestow me with a gift...

McIvor: Deputy Borrower

But rather than being an old shriveled up spinster, she's a young plain-Jane sort who can become pretty (but never ravishing or hot) with the right help. She's studying at a very prestigious university, getting her Masters in Library Science, and paying her way as a research assistant for a Criminal Psychology professor who is also a well-published conspiracy theorist. This university is one of the nation's oldest, has a Skulls-like secret society, and many of the nation's, indeed the world's, captains of industry, leading politicians, and eccentric geniuses have come through its hallowed halls. While her professor is going off on all sorts of crazy which hunts as well as doing legitimate research on the criminal psyche, McIvor learns more and more herself about conspiracies and criminals. Each new red herring of the professor's leads her on a real adventure -- and being that so many of the university's alumni are prominent and worldly persons, turning any corner on campus leads her tumbling accidentally into a UAE Sheik's entourage or finds her overhearing the confidential murmurings of two Senators who are ardent defenders of the tobacco lobby.

McIvor, D.B.

promulgated by SWS2.1 at 21:11.
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