Whodunit?
September 5, 2025
During Quest Week a crime took place in the Library - could you have solved it?
Author: Walker Cheatham
"Dear Detective,
Thank you so much for agreeing to help the library solve this case. Because Campus Security is busy checking on a fire alarm at High Rise, we need your help to investigate a death before all of the clues disappear.
Lipscomb Student Beatrice has fallen to her death from the 3rd floor staircase under mysterious circumstances. She was working on a paper for her Shakespeare class at the library. There are five students involved in this case who are suspected in Beatrice’s death..."
This is an excerpt from a letter over a 150 students and aspiring detective received about a case they need to solve. On August 15, the Beaman Library hosted a Quest Week event called Whodunnit? A Murder Mystery in the Library.
This event has become an annual tradition at the library for our incoming freshmen and new students and has been a pretty popular event. Students were asked to solve a mystery in the library using newly developed information literacy skills.
They went to several different areas in the library to piece together the clues to solve a grisly murder.
Several students described it as very fun and creative while others were just worried that there was a killer wandering around Lipscomb’s campus!
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