Arms of Nemesis (42 page)

I want to say thank you to some people whose personal interest in my work and professional support of my career have been unflagging: to my editor Michael Denneny and his assistant, Keith Kahla; to Terri Odom and the Odom clan; to John W. Rowberry and John Preston; to my sister Gwyn, Keeper of the Disks; and of course to Rick Solomon.

A library figures prominently in this novel - the library of Lucius Licinius is the scene of the murder. In the here and now, it is libraries which are being killed — cut back, shut down, dismantled and dispersed, book by book and dollar by dollar. Yet without them, I could hardly have done my research. I especially appreciate the San Francisco Public Library, severely shaken but not shut down by the earthquake of 1989; the Interlibrary Loan system, which allows access to volumes from collections all over the country; the Perry-Castaneda Library on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, where I've spent whole days among the stacks in a kind of information ecstasy, uncovering material for both
Arms of Nemesis
and its sequel,
Catalina's Riddle;
and the Jennie Trent Dew Memorial Library in Goldthwaite, Texas, where in a sense all my historical research began some thirty years ago.

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