Goodreads asked Malcolm Tanner:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Malcolm Tanner None, really. That's an interesting question, but in reality, my life was pretty simple and without much mystery, but when I was growing up, there was one time, my dad was bringing us home and the police were across the street in our neighbor's drive. It sort of made us wonder what was happening. My dad opened the back door to the house but told us to wait. He walked in and then there was a bunch of noise. My brother and I jumped off the back porch and ran across the street to get the police. The police ran towards our house. Dad had to come out with his hands up, explaining to the police he tried to scare us, but didn't think we would run across the street. Although it was just a joke my dad was playing on us, I think I could have taken that incident and made some kind of story out of it.

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