The Dog Collar Murders (25 page)

“Hey neighbor,” she called. “Want to dance?”

T
HIS NOVEL WAS WRITTEN
in England, where I benefited from discussions with British feminists as well as from a new perspective on the American porn wars. I’d especially like to thank Sue O’Sullivan and Linda Semple for reading the manuscript; Jen Green, Leslie Winegrad and Barbara Gunnell for material and emotional support; and Ann Coppel for technical information. Abundant thanks to Faith Conlon, the best editor and friend a feminist crime writer could hope for.

Barbara Wilson is the pen name under which Barbara Sjoholm has published the Cassandra Reilly Mysteries and the Pam Nilsen Mysteries.
Gaudí Afternoon
, of the Cassandra Reilly series, won a Lambda Literary Award and a Crime Writers’ Association Award, and was made into a film by the same name. Like her detective Cassandra Reilly, Sjoholm is a translator, but of Norwegian and Danish books. In addition to her fiction and the memoir
Blue Windows
, Sjoholm is the author of the travel books
The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea
,
Incognito Street
, and
The Palace of the Snow Queen
. Her essays have appeared in the
American Scholar
,
Harvard Review
, the
New York Times
,
Smithsonian
, and Slate, among other publications.

For more about Barbara Sjoholm, please visit
www.barbarasjoholm.com
.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1989 by Barbara Wilson

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