Preface

You know what these stories need?

A Preface

You see,  this sort of story often starts with a preface explaining just how the writer got his hot little hands on a heretofore unknown authentic manuscript by blah-blah. One thinks of The Seven Per Cent Solution or The Name of the Rose. There’s no such folderol (or fiddle-dee-dee)  in any of my books. They just drop you in the middle of the action and then it’s on with the show. But there IS a story behind how I, a Louisiana boy born and bred, came upon these three Sherlock Holmes tales, and I’m going to share it with just you now.

Or maybe later.