ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For help and encouragement I have many people to thank:

My regretted friends and mentors Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) and Lewis M. Knapp.

Eleanor Sullivan, editor and friend

Librarians Kee DeBoer, George Fagan, Ellsworth Mason

Generous helpers Frank Krutzke, Ellen and Vincent O’Brien, Dorothy and Paul Thompson.

British Friends Stella and Geoffrey Ward, Charlotte and Denis Plimmer, Margot Bronner.

And always my husband, George S. McCue, upon whose wide learning, critical judgment and penetrating insights I depend.

Lillian de la Torre