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¹
Aka Secret Agent 86.

²
Called “Satan Place.”

³
The International Organization of Evil (pronounced “chaos”).

⁴
Sock garter phone.

¹
Big Brothers of America–sanctioned activities.

²
Same assorted males.

³
Cannot establish a trend.

⁴
Or woman with whom he shares a resemblance and appears to be his mother.

⁵
Cannot establish a trend.

⁶
Petra (must not mention her in case he remembers Staged Dental Appointment #1).

⁷
get high and

⁸
Untrue.

⁹
A top-secret counterespionage organization (the good guys).

¹⁰
The International Organization of Evil.

¹
Statistically speaking, there are far more women than men working in education, so this was not an entirely reckless assumption.

¹
The International Organization of Evil.

²
For instance, if you ask Hymie to “give you a hand,” he starts unscrewing his hand.

³
Named after the father of the evil scientist who created him.

⁴
Hymie looks human.

¹
The International Organization of Evil.

¹
The International Organization of Evil.

¹
Baking powder looks more authentic but is much harder to snort.

¹
I know you cannot say the same for me, and I’m okay with that.

²
And, yes, I kind of know what that feels like.

³
Example of aforementioned inside joke.

⁴
0% loans only will be mentioned.

⁵
Has lent me
a lot
of money and read perhaps more than anyone, including my supercrappy early screenplays.

⁶
Morgan’s husband and therefore money-lending applies to him as well.

⁷
She is only four, therefore, I have not borrowed money from her.

⁸
I don’t recall borrowing money from Julie, but she has bought me many drinks and employed me a few times.

⁹
Lent money, but didn’t read all that many drafts. Will need to step up if she wants mentioning in second book’s acknowledgments.

¹⁰
No, I will not buy you a car.

¹¹
Lent money, read lots of drafts,
and
bought lots of drinks.

¹²
Read lots and lots of drafts, lent money,
and
has given me large household appliances and furniture.

¹³
Any potential muggers who happen to be reading this should note this fact.

¹⁴
This would, in fact, have been a reasonable thing to do—all things considered.

¹⁵
For the record, Uncle Ray was not modeled after either one of my uncles.

¹⁶
Ibid.

¹⁷
Rent free!

¹⁸
Except Mike Joffe. I’m not acknowledging him.

¹⁹
Seriously, this book is
not
about you.

The Spellman Files

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lutz, Lisa.
Curse of the Spellmans / by Lisa Lutz.
p. cm.
1. Private investigators—Fiction. 2. Domestic fiction.
I. Title.
PS3612.U897C87 2008
813'.6—dc22 2007021152

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-6563-5
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