The mystery of a secret room, scene of many murders, is unraveled by Carlos Paredes, the Panamanian Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by manybooks.net)
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Source text (please only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10869 (find links to text in the notes section)
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(If you have trouble reading the image above, please message an admin) You'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: neb - neckertb
OK, MW is up (I had time after all ). Do you have a target date?
I've added mystery as genre, let me know if there is something else you can think of.
Let's hang out here a bit and see if we can catch a DPL.
neckertb wrote:OK, MW is up (I had time after all ). Do you have a target date?
I've added mystery as genre, let me know if there is something else you can think of.
Let's hang out here a bit and see if we can catch a DPL.
Hi Nadine. Thanks for MCing for me
I think mystery is fine, I've not actually read the book myself, so it is indeed a mystery
About the completion date, I'm not sure. I've just got two more chapters to finish of for my first solo project, but I've never BCed.
This book deceived me though. I thought it would be nice and short for my first project, but I checked earlier and it seems each chapter is about 7000 words long
Oh, yes about the date: just choose one, and you can always change it if it does not fit...
ETA: arghhh... I had missed that you used the template for group prjects, but this is a solo, right? Do you think you could fix the first post a bit? I believe the main difference is the disclaimer, where there is a short version for chapter 2 and following...
I don't have the time right now, but I'll be back with the MW in a couple of hours at the latest 
). Do you have a target date?
