1. [n]  the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge
2. [n]  the point beyond which something disappears or ceases to exist

Vanishing Point
University archivist Claire Reynier has spent years archiving and documenting the papers of Jonathan Vail, a writer who disappeared in the 1960s while hiking in a Utah canyon. When Claire learns that Vail`s journal has been found in the canyon, she begins to wonder whether he really did die of natural causes, as everyone assumes.

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