From The Dead (43 page)

Thanks probably come a poor second to lavish gifts or cold hard cash, but they are due nonetheless to Wendy Lee, Peter Cocks and Victoria Jones. And to the two people whose names I did not discover: the dodgy-looking man who wanted to buy my hat in a bar in Mijas and could easily have been Alan Langford, and the girl on the beach in Puerto Banus, who became Candela Bernal.

And to Claire, of course. It goes without saying.

While all those mentioned above have contributed enormously to
From the Dead
, the mistakes remain entirely my own work. On that subject, I would like to point out that I am well aware that the
feria Virgen de la Pena
takes place every year in Mijas Pueblo in September and not in April. Having experienced the festival myself in all its hypnotic and spooky splendour, it was not something I could deny Tom Thorne. So I hope that those who are – even now – reaching for their green pens to write me angry letters will forgive me taking liberties with the calendar in the interests of the story.