Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Marathon Murders

Running on Roosevelt Island (DC) was both super beautiful and so isolated that it was a little creepy.  But it inspired the following ideas.

The Marathon Murders

Someone is killing the great marathon runners of the world.  Only law professor and elite amateur marathoner Max (Ironman) Huffman has found the clues to put together the connections and stop the killing before the next great world marathon in Berlin.  This time its not whether he will finish the race, but whether he will even make it to the starting line.

Run, Run, as Fast as You Can

A routine morning run on Roosevelt Island turns out to uncover not one, but two murders. Law professor and amateur distance runner Spencer Waller uncovers a fiendish plot and competition between not one, but two, serial killers who are now hot on his trail.

The P.R. Murders

Bankruptcy law maven and triathlete Ted Janger has the run of his life in the Hamptons marathon where he refuses to run away from a secret that has haunted him since he started as a law professor twenty years ago.  It's the race of a lifetime and a personal best, but will it be fast enough?

The Final Marathon

Ted, Max, and Spencer team up in Rome for what is supposed to be Spencer's last marathon.  But murder intervenes and each is now on their own trying to stop the one person who ties them all together and who so far has run rings around them.

2 comments:

  1. Best use of runningprofsblog yet. Congratulations.

    And it raises a possible new blog feature: rotating "chapters." Each contributor has a set period of time (week? month?) to draft the next chapter. If drafting a whole chapter is too onerous, which seems likely, sketching it out in a few hundred words will do.

    Fiendish plot and competition between two serial killers hot on Spencer's trail? Section 1 and 2 both. It's a promising place to start!

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  2. This is awesome!! Let's do it. I'm already thinking of possible villains -- some marathoners, some not. :-)

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