What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Mystery in the Flooded Museum
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SOLVED. YA? girl works in museum, tied up during a flood [s]
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Nov 17, 2016 10:48PM
Probably written before 1980. Given its tone, I'd guess 1960s or 1970s. We'd call it YA now, but it was probably Juvenile then. It was probably a mystery. Main character is a girl, probably a teen, who gets a job in a museum. The only part I remember is at the climax there is a flood. The girl discovers someone she knows stealing from the museum and is tied up and left in the museum in rising waters. She gets rescued by a boy she knows.
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Mystery in the flooded museum by Margaret Goff Clark. Hardcover with DJ. Great story (I have all of MGC's fiction books).Cover: http://www.librarything.com/work/2183...
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I don't know. I can't find anything but the scantest information. I don't recognize the cover, but for all I know the book I read didn't have a picture. None of the author's other books seem familiar either except possibly "Adirondack Mountain Mystery", which has even less information.
If it helps, you can see the whole back and front of the Mystery in the Flooded Museum cover here....http://smg.photobucket.com/user/RareB...
I've read the book so I know it is the one! Plot description from librarything link:Rising flood waters and the disappearance of a valuable wampum belt mar the beginning of fifteen-year-old Susan's summer of volunteer work at the Fort Pitt Museum.
Set in Pittsburgh during the flood after Hurricane Agnes. Fifteen-year-old Susan Drummond, a volunteer worker at the Fort Pitt Museum, is caught up in the mystery of a valuable stolen wampum belt and her pursuit of the thief through the treacherous rising flood waters swamping the museum.
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL84309...
Borrow ebook for free there.
I have a physical copy myself.
http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blo...
“Mystery in the Flooded Museum,” by Margaret Goff Clark and published in 1978, is built on the premise that the Fort Pitt Museum flooded and that someone indeed got trapped inside the building and required rescue. Fictional but intriguing events woven into the novel include a budding love story and the theft of a treasured 18th century wampum belt.
http://adventure-9.blogspot.com.au/20...
Mystery in the Flooded Museum
A Novel by Margaret Goff Clark (1913-2003).
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978. 173 pages.
Susan Drummond, age 15 and a Pittsburgh museum volunteer, races against rising flood waters in the Golden Triangle and especially the odd disappearance of Fort Pitt's sacred artifact: George Washington's wampum belt.
“When the Fort Pitt Museum was flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Agnes,” reads the Author's Note, “most of its contents were saved by the resourceful young man who was then curator, Rex T. Lohmann; Douglas M. Preston, then assistant curator; and a host of volunteers who transferred the valuable artifacts to a truck and moved them to higher ground. This was the starting point for Mystery in the Flooded Museum, but from there on, imagination took over. The place and the flood are true. No character is based on any actual person.”
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We hope that Leela4 is able to do this soon!
Leela4, the ball is in your court.
I've seen several marked solved without OP verification as it's logically resolved beyond a doubt. In this case it should be too. No idea why it takes so long to mark solved sometimes!
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That's true, we do sometimes do that. But not with a thread this recent, only a bit over a month old. We like to give the OP a chance to respond.
This post is solved. I doubt there's another book with that EXACT story. I wish original posters would return to reply.
I have had three people be certain that one of my searches was a particular book, but I've read their suggestion and it's not. We can't know until the original poster comes back and confirms.
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The book can also be borrowed from archive . org.
Finally noticed the notice I had re this thread. "Mystery in the Flooded Museum" does seem to be the book. Bookel's historical notes were particularly interesting. Thank you all!
