Thanks To Barbara Peters and Robert Rosenwald, to my writing pals Alan Russell, Gene Riehl, Ron Argo, Lynne Kennedy, Mark Clifton, Dave Knop, Maynard Kartvedt, Barbara Hopfinger, Barbara Gardner, and especially to Gary Phillips for help finding my way around old Los Angeles to all the novelists who made me want to be one to Jackie Miller of the Foursquare Heritage Center and to the writers of history, including Kevin Starr, J.
I was going to enjoy setting Gardner, Jackson & Bray loose on the detective.
Compared to the senior partners at Gardner, Jackson & Bray, the detective and the drug lord looked like little girls with a lemonade stand.
Love, Poppy I addressed the envelope to Chariss in care of Ruth Gardner at Gardner, Jackson & Bray, stood, and stretched my back.
