Goodreads asked Jameson Parker:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Jameson Parker Wow. That's the kind of question that provides food for thought. I guess much would depend on what kind of traditional mystery you are thinking of (whodunit, hard-boiled, detective, cozy English, locked-room, whatever), or if you're referring to a more social mystery (for want of a better phrase) where there is no dead body, but where malevolent motives and actions may never be fully understood. For a somewhat oblique example of that, click here http://www.readjamesonparker.com/arch... for an account of something that I still wonder about. For a more traditional and unpleasant kind of mystery, google the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer. She was a friend of my parents who was murdered on the towpath in Georgetown (Washington, DC). I was only a child when that occurred, and we weren't even living in America at the time, but the ripples of it (hushed voices, terminated conversations, references that sailed over my head) still resonate with the unknown and with potential evil in unlikely places.

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