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    The Chief of Police investigates the murder of a woman, discovering all the town's dirty secrets including one about himself; the victim might be his half-sister, which complicates his investigation because he slept with her.

    Sound intriguing? That's the synopsis of the screenplay for Anatomy of a Town, written by Northsider Patricia Fox, which was aired on radio station KCBX on March 7. And you can listen to it now - it's archived at www.kcbx.org/. The screenplay, set in Minnesota, was produced for radio after it won the Divebomber Radio Screenplay Contest. It was also a finalist/quarterfinalist in the Champion Screenwriting Contest, the Santa Fe Writers Place Contest, Page International and the Austin Film Festival.

    Patricia Fox studied creative writing, screenwriting, film history and film criticism at the U of M. She has been a finalist three times for the IFP-MN Screenwriting Fellowship; a Selected Artist for Screenwriting at the Telluride Independent Film Festival with her first feature length screenplay, Dinah: and a finalist for Anatomy of a Town and winner for Date of Death, at the Minnesota Screenwriters Workshop Leave ‘Em Hooked Showcase Competition. She also directed her own staged reading of her screenplay The Lamar Bigsby Story.