Goodreads asked Maya Corrigan:

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

Maya Corrigan When my husband recently cleaned out the house where his parents had lived for fifty years, he found an IOU that was dated 1895. The IOU was made out to someone with a last name that matched the maiden name of my husband's grandmother, but we don't know exactly who that person was or who owed him money. Typically, IOUs were torn up when the money owed was paid back. This intact IOU means the debt was never paid. Why not? To me as a mystery writer, that suggested either the borrower or the lender was murdered. The book plot would involve tracking down who was murdered and whodunit, more than a century after the crime took place.

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