A Burial at Sea

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This book is dedicated with love to my grandmother, Anne Truitt, who loved sea stories. In memory.

Acknowledgments

A Burial at Sea required perhaps more research than the previous four Lenox books combined, and correspondingly there are a large number of people to thank. Chief among these is Jeremiah Dancy, naval historian at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, who patiently answered dozens of my questions, small and large, and offered me an excellent bibliography. The most useful of the books he recommended to me were The Navy in Transition by Michael Lewis and The Royal Navy: An Illustrated Social History, 1870–1982. by Captain John Wells. I also want to mention the two writers who inspired this book’s setting, C. S. Forester and the incomparable Patrick O’Brian.

As usual, the team at St. Martin’s Press, from Charlie Spicer to Yaniv Soha to Andy Martin, was wonderfully generous and helpful. So was my agent, Kate Lee.

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