Nice Weekend for a Murder

Author’s Note

Mohonk Mountain House is, of course, a real place; the Mohonk Mystery Weekend is a real event. But the mystery weekend in this book is a fictional one, as are the characters who take part in it — game-players, celebrity suspects, hotel staff, and the rest. It is my intention to summon types as opposed to doing roman à clef portraits of real people.

Likewise, The Mystery Chronicler is a fictional publication and is not patterned on any real magazine in the mystery (or any other) field.

My thanks to Faire Hart at Mohonk for her help, patience, and continual graciousness; to Peter Lewis and Kathe Mull for sharing their Sky Top memories; and to Don Westlake and Abby Adams for inviting me to one of the first Mohonk Mystery Weekends, where I had the honor of being the killer.