Acknowledgements

All of the novels in the St-Cyr–Kohler series incorporate a few words and brief passages of French or German. Dr Dennis Essar of Brock University very kindly assisted with the French, as did the artist Pierrette Laroche, while Professor Don MacRae, of Germanic and Slavic Studies at Brock, helped with the German.

A very special thanks must also be extended to Joel and Laurence Sherman, of Nat Sherman Tobacconists, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, for their very kind and patient answers to my queries about cigars and for permission to use some of the Sherman brand names in a historical sense.

Should there be any errors, however, they are my own. For these I apologize but hope there are none.