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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
These stories originally appeared in the following publications: “First Strike,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dec. 1991; “The White Bear,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 1992; “Lone Wolf,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 1993; “Haunts,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Oct. 1993; “The Problem with the Pigs,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, June 1997; “The Lazarus Gate,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Oct. 1996; “Unmarked Graves,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Sept. 1997; “Priests,” Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Sept. 1991; “Tomb,” Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Oct. 1993; “Model Town,” Unholy Orders, Nov. 2000;
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