What is a Senior Sleuth?
March 31st, 2007Seeking Senior Sleuths
Seniors v Crime Project, a Florida program created by the State’s Attorney General. Site has articles about Nigerian email scams, investment fraud, and Medicare & Medicaid fraud. See related CBS news story, “Senior Sleuths Bust The Bad Guys.”
Illinois also has a Senior Sleuth Program.
Senior Sleuths Sought
‘Adventure in Science’ Seeks a Few Good Guides
“Help wanted: Science enthusiasts for temporary assignment working with youngsters with infectious curiosity; volunteers must be able to communicate passion for discovery.”
Teacher-volunteers, many of whom have careers in science and math, agree to present interactive sessions to a group of about 8 to 10 children on one Saturday morning (or more, if they desire). Some past topics have included “M&Ms and Data Analysis,” “A Visit to the Fourth Dimension,” “Inside a Frog,” and “Why a Fly?”
I think there may be a typo on the page entitled “Supper Sleuths” but seniors are known to their food! From the Wakefield Public Library comes a list of 44 Senior Sleuths.
From the State Library in Missouri comes the Sisterhood of Senior Sleuths — titles, authors and descriptions of the sleuths.
Who Killed Swami Schwartz? (Senior Sleuth Mystery Series) by Nora Charles
SENIOR SLEUTHS
Manson, Cynthia; Scarborough, Constance (Editors) “An anthology of great mystery authors including Agatha Cristie, Lilian Jackson Braun, Loren D. Estleman and Dorothy Salisbury Davis.”
Senior sleuths : a large print anthology of mysteries and puzzlers by Isaac Asimov; Martin Harry Greenberg; Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh
Senior Women Web article entitled “Senior Women Sleuths” by Joanne Brickman.
Mystery Readers International has two articles from The Senior Sleuth, Volume 16, No. 3, Fall 2000, online. Read “My ‘Career’ as a Senior Sleuth: Elizabeth Trenka Speaks for Her Author by Joyce Christmas” and “On Becoming/ Creating a Senior Sleuth” by Janet LaPierre.
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