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Imagined memoirs of the famous; 'Lost' manuscripts are a staple of this burgeoning whodunit genre.(Features)(Books)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 19990812
Author:Wales, Ruth

Sherlock Holmes and the rune stone mystery By Larry Millett Viking 336 pp., $23.95 THE CRIMES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE By James Tully Carroll & Graf 284 pp., $24

Given the current popularity of autobiographical reminiscences, it's not surprising that the mystery memoir is almost a whodunit category. An author finds a hidden, handwritten document featuring a well-known literary name. With footnotes, commentary, or afterword, the resulting book can be fun to read and a delight to fans of the original.

But writers who practice the art of the imagined famous-person memoir run ...

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