Acknowledgments

Thanks to the staff at the Santa Fe Public Library for their help. Thanks to J. W. Satterthwait and to my agent, Dominick Abel. Thanks to Anita Battat for her help with the computer and for her sage advice. Many thanks, and another birthday card, to Reagan Arthur at St. Martin’s, for her endless patience while answering questions and tolerating bad jokes. For information on electronic surveillance, thanks to Michael Peros and his Privacy Electronics in Pinellas Park, Florida. Thanks to Carol Mothrer for the loan of her paintings. Thanks to Ada Dryce for her company and the use of her washing machine. Thanks to Josiah Thompson, whose excellent book Gumshoe provided many valuable insights. Thanks to Miriam Davidson, whose book Convictions of the Heart, also excellent, did the same. And thanks once again, and a Hatlo Hat-tip, to Jonathan Richards and Claudia Jessup, who’ve been good friends through the occasional patch of thick and the protracted periods of thin.