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As for George, he settled in with me and is a big help. I used to take my thyroid pills when I thought of it. Or else I didn’t. Sometimes it was hard to remember. Now I take them every day at ten o’clock.
ELIZABETH DANIELS SQUIRE (1926–2001) came late in life to the mystery field. As you might expect of a scion of the Daniels family, founders of the Raleigh News and Observer, she spent the first years of her career as a reporter, covering everything from school boards to murder trials. For a time she wrote a syndicated column about the character and talents of the famous as divined from their palm prints. Her seven mysteries, set in the mountains of North Carolina where she lived, featured an absent-minded sleuth named Peaches Dann. The short story featured in this collection, “The Dog Who Remembered Too Much,” won an Agatha Award and an Anthony nomination in 1996.
Copyright 2001 by C. B. Squire, Trustee. First printed in Malice Domestic, volume 4 (New York: Pocket Books, 1995). Reprinted with permission of C. B. Squire.