Copp On Fire, A Joe Copp Thriller (Joe Copp, Private Eye Series) - Plot & Excerpts
I'd already been gisted; I wanted a close look for myself. The editor was very interested in the Wiseman affair, of course, and he also knew that I was hot. I promised him a lock on the story if I ever put it together for myself. He set up the equipment for me and then left me to my own devices. I had used the equipment before, of course. The computer age . . . used to be you could spend days going through back issues and still miss the item you were looking for. Now you just punch up the program on a computer terminal, sit back and let the magic genie search through years of news quicker than you can light a cigarette. It's all cross-indexed by subjects, dates, personalities, events—and you can call up every story in the file on a given person and even get hard copies if you want them. There was not that much of a file on Bernard Wiseman, though the file was twenty years deep. He had been charged once years ago with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, charges later dropped. In more recent years he had been honored by the Producer's Guild and attacked by the Writer's Guild, there was a mention of his separation from Justine, coverage of his accident in Mexico, some stuff from the financial pages regarding UT's soaring success, gossip-column chaff about the problems with his board of directors, other odds and sods regarding new projects.
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