{"id":4134,"date":"2026-01-04T00:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/lord-john-grey-01-lord-john-and-the-private-matter-gabaldon-diana\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:09:32","slug":"lord-john-grey-01-lord-john-and-the-private-matter-gabaldon-diana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/lord-john-grey-01-lord-john-and-the-private-matter-gabaldon-diana\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord John Grey 01 – Lord John and the Private Matter – Gabaldon, Diana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Interviewers are always asking me how many research assistants I employ. The answer is \u201cNone.\u201d I do all my own research\u2014because I simply wouldn\u2019t have any idea what to tell an assistant to go look for!<\/p>\n

However, the answer also is \u201cHundreds!\u201d\u2014because so many nice people not only answer my random inquiries about this, that, and the other\u2014but then helpfully provide lots more entertaining information that I would never have dreamed of asking for in the first place.<\/p>\n

In conjunction with this particular book, I\u2019d especially like to acknowledge the efforts of . . .<\/p>\n


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. . . Karen Watson, of Her Majesty\u2019s Customs and Excise, who kindly spent a lot of time sleuthing round London (and assorted historical records) to verify the feasibility of various of Lord John\u2019s movements, and also was of invaluable assistance in locating appropriate venues for skulduggery, as well as suggesting picturesque bits of arcana like the heroically amended statue of Charles I. I have taken small liberties with some of her information regarding London police jurisdictions, but that\u2019s my fault, not hers.<\/p>\n


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. . . John L. Myers, who inadvertently started this a long time ago, by sending me books about queer Dutchmen and Englishmen who were a little odd, too.<\/p>\n


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. . . Laura Bailey (and her fellow re-enactors), for the lavish details of costume in the eighteenth century.<\/p>\n


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. . . Elaine Wilkinson, who not only responded to my plea for a \u201cGerman red,\u201d but discovered the existence of Castle Georgen and the family zu Egkh und Hungerbach (Josef, his castle, and his Schilcher wine are real; his disreputable nephew is my own invention. \u201cSchilcher,\u201d by the way, means \u201cbrilliant\u201d or \u201csparkling\u201d).<\/p>\n


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. . . Barbara Schnell, my wonderful German translator, for helpful details regarding the conversation and conduct of Stephan von Namtzen, and for the name \u201cMayrhofer,\u201d as well as the German expression for \u201cwell-groomed.\u201d<\/p>\n


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. . . My two literary agents, Russell Galen and Danny Baror, who, when I told them I had finished the second Lord John short story, inquired how long it was. Upon being told, they looked at each other, then at me, and said as one, \u201cYou do<\/span> realize that that\u2019s the length most normal<\/span> books are?\u201d Which is why this is a book, though I make no claims for how normal it is. Not very, I expect.<\/p>\n

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