Ten Little Herrings
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It was, after all, going to be a fine evening. I began to look forward to the book launch.
Acknowledgements
One of the many pleasures of bringing out another book is to thank the people who have helped it on its way.
As ever, I am immensely grateful to the team at Macmillan, and especially Will, Sophie, Maria, Caitriona, Ellen and Mary for their assistance at different stages of the process.
I am grateful to all booksellers everywhere, but David Headley at Goldsboro Books has been particularly supportive of my work and of comic crime fiction more generally.
Writers are sufficiently neurotic to need multiple support groups. Mine have included the Society of Authors, the Crime Writers’ Association, my colleagues at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Medical Royal Colleges chief executives group and (last but not least) my fellow authors at Macmillan New Writing, to all of whom my thanks.
And, once again, I am grateful to Ann, Tom and Catrin for their patience while I was working on this book and for the occasional steer as to what my characters might be thinking or doing next.
Also by L. C. Tyler
The Herring Seller’s Apprentice
(the first Elsie and Ethelred mystery)
A Very Persistent Illusion
Disclaimer
The characters and events in this book are all fictitious. The passage on this page, where the publisher voluntarily offers a writer improved terms, is pure fantasy.
First published 2009 by Macmillan
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