Acknowledgments

This book could not have been written without the cooperation and assistance of members of the New York City Police Department who were directly involved in the investigation of what became known as the CBS murders, nor without access to certain files, documents, memoranda, and records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation relating to its probe of the swindle that led to those murders.

Most particularly, I would like to express my gratitude for their patience and help to the members of the task force charged with uncovering the crime, Detectives Richard Chartrand and Robert Patterson of the Midtown North precinct and to Lieutenant Richard Gallagher and Detective John Wales, both now retired from the force.

—R. H.