I have to say - just looking at the book list of @Andy Saunders - it looks like I could do with
a: reading all them books
and
b: some "consultancy" from Andy asap
My current MZ629 mystery is genuinely fascinating. Twists and turns including a cameo appearance from Belgium's most notorious Collaborator, execution of a priest*, a 101 yr old neighbour, a clever escape and evasion by the sole survivor who ended up in the Comet Line, and with whom I possibly have a family connection with, a couple of Canadians who've been on the case for 25 years...all interwoven into the tapestry of where I live - to the point that I've been finding out about Comet Line safe houses in places I take my kids weekly, and an infamous house that features prominently in a book about the Occupation.. that I've passed near daily for the past 9 years, but has now been completely erased from any searchable record to protect the innocent! Finding the location of the latter took a private call to our mayor from a trusted source - under the strict instructions "you can't tell anybody, but the house from the book is xxx"....
75+ years after hostilities ended, and people here are still asking (and being granted) the "right to be forgotten".
Then of course there's the minor mystery of the Dornier 17 prop in a neighbour's garden.
My head is spinning - it's turned into a bleedin Da Vinci Code style mystery, from less than 2 weeks ago where I was lazily responding to a post on our usually dull as dishwater local Facebook group - to ...well..a lot more than even "this" that I've posted to be honest.
*Turns out the execution of the priest had nothing to do with that particular crashed Halifax - memories from long ago conflating different incidents; but still shocking for me, as I have a lot of connection with the church and the current priest - I'd been there doing some work for our Scouts about 2 hours before I got the relevant hand-written documents from the Diocese and a letter from Dachau