The Bone Collector

reads as well. Thanks to Pam Dorman, whose deft editorial touch is evident everywhere in this story. And of course thanks to my agent, Deborah Schneider . . . what would I do without ya? I’m grateful too to Nina Salter at Calmann-Lévy for her perceptive comments on an earlier draft of the book and to Karolyn Hutchinson at REP in Alexandria, Virginia, for invaluable help with wheelchairs and other equipment available for quadriplegics. And to Teddy Rosenbaum—a detective in her own right—for her fine copyediting job. Students of law enforcement may wonder about the structure of the NYPD and FBI as presented here; tweaking the organizational charts was my doing exclusively. Oh, yes—anyone interested in reading a copy of Crime in Old New York may have a little trouble finding one. The official story is that the book is a fictional creation, though I’ve also heard the rumor that the one copy in existence was recently stolen from the New York Public Library—by a person or persons unknown.
    —J.W.D.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s Imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
     
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