None of this would have been possible without the friendship of the late Jean-Pierre Hamer and of Dominique Lagenebre through whom I got to know Lurs and who introduced me to a number of people familiar with the Dominici affair.
Principal among them was Gérard de Meester, the present proprietor of La Grand’ Terre, to whom I am most grateful for his valuable assistance and generous hospitality. In ten years of exceptional effort he has exorcised and transformed an abandoned ruin into a delightful family home.
I am most grateful to the valuable assistance of the archivists at Boots UK Limited who gave me valuable information on Sir Jack Drummond’s work with the company.
My thanks are due to Martine and Roger Favre for their friendship, help, and encouragement.
Geoffrey Hamm gave me invaluable assistance tracking down archival material in the National Archives Kew.
I owe a special debt of gratitude to Vera Yuen from the Interlibrary Loans Department at Simon Fraser University for her incomparable skill in tracking down obscure bibliographical material.
Financial support from the university’s Faculty of Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
At the University of Nebraska Press I have been ably assisted by Tish Fobben, Natalie O’Neal, Sabrina Stellrecht, and Tom Swanson. Vicki Chamlee undertook the daunting task of translating my text into American English, thereby lending weight to Oscar Wilde’s adage that “we have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.” The faults that remain are entirely my own.
I received invaluable help from my agent Don Fehr and to his assistant Heather Carr.
Last, my thanks are due to Bettina, who has been there from the first time that we visited the site of the Drummond murders in July 1991.