Death on a High Floor

Authors: Charles Rosenberg

Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #United States, #Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, #Mystery, #Thrillers, #Legal, #Suspense & Thrillers

DEATH ON A HIGH FLOOR: A Legal Thriller

Charles Rosenberg

Kindle edition first published 2011

ISBN 978-0-615-47065-8

Sliding Hill Press

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, or to any law firm, currently or previously existing, is a coincidence. In cases where references are made to real businesses, institutions, public offices or public officials, they are used fictionally.

Credits:

Just a Girl
, Lyrics by Gwen Stefani and Thomas Dumont, Copyright 1995.

Bullet holes on cover image are (c) Copyright Jupiter Images 2010.

For my mother and father, Ruth and Joe, who taught me to write,

and for my wife, Sally Anne, the true
über
editor of this work.

Acknowledgments

Many friends, acquaintances and colleagues have been kind enough to read and comment on the manuscript as it progressed, and I am enormously grateful to each of them.

A particular note of thanks is due those who read and critiqued earlier drafts. Without their comments, suggestions, encouragement and support, Death on a High Floor would still lie unfinished on my desk. They include my son, Joe Rosenberg, Holly D’Lane Miller, Melanie and Doug Chancellor, Roland Miller, Deanna Wilcox, Lauren Gwin, Amy Huggins, Alyssa Heisten, Jill and John Bauman, Lindsay Pedder, Pamela Pedder, Lou Pedder, Dale Franklin, Nicole Gregory, Julie Dermansky, Roger Chittum, Linda Brown, Annye Camara, Patricia and Ned Wright, Kelly Guzman, Helen Brandt, Maxine Nunes, Abigail Rose Solomon, Ira Zuckerman, Joyce Mendlin, Janey Place, Tom and Juanita Ringer, Nancy Boyarsky, Becky Novelli, Harold Lee, Maureen Gustafson, Michael Asimow, Joyce Mendlin, Hannah Lee Morhman, Tara Palty, Berry Silverman, Wendy Perkins, Sally Daily, Tom Stromberg, Estelle Rogers, Jack Walker, Susan Futterman, Julia Chen, Marilyn Katz, William Wright, Diana Wright, Doreen Weisenhaus, Dana Finkey Barbeau, Kelty Logan, Jerry Seelig, Mary Lane Leslie, Carol Lucas, Arvin Brown, Ellen Fulton, Elaine Jarvik, Tyson Butler, Christina Rea, Susan Goodrich, and Marty Beech. I want in addition to thank my terrific publishing consultant, April Hamilton, whose advice has been invaluable, as well as my excellent proof reader, Annie Kim. Any errors that may remain in the text, however, are mine alone, and not Annie’s.

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