Geocaching Featured In "the Dead Place"

[+Hard Oiler]

My wife is reading The Dead Place by Stephen Booth and was surprised to find Geocaching playing a part of the plot (it's a murder mystery)

 

Briefly the police stumble across a Tupperware container in a search of an area of Derbyshire in the UK. The container has in it a travel bug with the www.Groundspeak.com web address which leads them to a local cacher who explains how it all works.

 

What I found interesting is that the cache name was Petrus Two and there is a real cache Petrus in about the right spot. Petrus was placed by Dodgydaved. The local cacher in the book is Dangerous Dave. and the travel bug Mr Potato Head is also mentioned. Factually all the details are pretty much correct. How the story evolves will have to wait until my wife finishes reading it . Either Stephen Booth is a geocacher or has done his research well.

[+Two Geeks and a GPS]

Hey HardOiler! How you doing? Long time, no see.

We missed you at B&G IV !

[+Hard Oiler]

We missed you at B&G IV !

That's because I got there first

 

Doing just fine - out with some caching buddies of yours in Ontario today cleaning up some unfound caches and placing a new one. You'll have to come on over

[+Gecko1]

Did the cache owner write this book?

[+Two Geeks and a GPS]

They at least did better research than the producers of "Law and Order: Criminal Intent!"

[+BlueDeuce]

My wife is reading The Dead Place by Stephen Booth and was surprised to find Geocaching playing a part of the plot (it's a murder mystery)

 

Briefly the police stumble across a Tupperware container in a search of an area of Derbyshire in the UK.  The container has in it a travel bug with the www.Groundspeak.com web address which leads them to a local cacher who explains how it all works.

 

What I found interesting is that the cache name was Petrus Two and there is a real cache Petrus in about the right spot.  Petrus was placed by Dodgydaved. The local cacher in the book is Dangerous Dave. and the travel bug Mr Potato Head is also mentioned.  Factually all the details are pretty much correct.  How the story evolves will have to wait until my wife finishes reading it  .  Either Stephen Booth is a geocacher or has done his research well.

Cool! Geocaching and geocachers are kind of behind the scenes. A perfect setting for a mystery.

 

I remember when I started feeling 'in the know' about all these locations that very few knew about.

Edited July 29, 2005 by BlueDeuce

[4wheelin_fool]

That is so cool !! Now I HAVE to read that book!

[dodgydaved]

Did the cache owner write this book?

'fraid not , but judging by the numbers of us lot who reckon they are going to read it I wish I had, think of those lovely royalties

[+Team Red Oak]

Maybe Mr. Potato Head wrote the book. I'll definately have to check it out!

[+DomHeknows]

shame that the locationless tb's are going away otherwise we could hope the book is made into a film and then claim another smiley.

[+caderoux]

Could be a waymark - movies featuring geocaching, books featuring geocaching, TV episodes featuring geocaching...

[+Bear Paughs]

Better as a waymark -- then more than one user could see it at the same theatre and still get credit for seeing it!

[adrianjohn]

See also this thread in the UK Forum Link where you will see that the author Has contacted Dodgydaved.

[Radman Forever]

It's always awesome for geocaching to be included in literture. I hope more fictional novels about geocaching will be created!