AUTHOR’S NOTE

I mostly try not to take liberties with actual Irish geography and sites while writing the Dublin Driver books, but I have made very bold with one location in Death of an Irish Mummy: the Lough Rynn house exists in the real world not as an encroaching ruin, but as an actual luxury castle-hotel.

The story of the missing heir, however, is absolutely true, although the family name has been changed for the purposes of this book. In the early twentieth century, the last remaining heir to the earldom left Ireland (presumably fleeing to America under an assumed name), and despite great effort and cost on the part of the last earl, was never found. A writer really couldn’t ask for a better story premise than that!