Notes

1

The success of this device in his recent novel (The Roman Hat Mystery) has encouraged Mr. Queen to repeat it here. It was found useful by many of Mr. Queen’s readers in keeping the dramatis personal compactly before them. — THE EDITOR.

2

I had been brushing up on my Xenophon, and when I ran across the passage relating to the Retreat of the Ten Thousand through ancient Armenia, the shoe reference gave me an idea for a short story. The incident is ridiculous in retrospect, although at the time I was quite oblivious to its humor. — E. Q.

3

See diagram at frontispiece.

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