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Authors: Phil Rickman

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I leaned heavily on three books on the West Case:
An Evil Love
by Geoffrey Wansell,
Happy Like Murderers
by Gordon Burn and
She Must Have Known
by Brian Masters. Also Paul Britton’s
The Jigsaw Man
. The more bizarre effects of electricity and the hot-spot phenomenon are discussed in Albert Budden’s
Allergies and Aliens
. You can find out about Ariconium in Brian Cave’s
The Countryside Around Weston and Lea (The Roman town of Ariconium and its district)
, which may be out of print now but was published by The Forest Bookshop, Coleford, where I got mine second-hand.

Frankly, this was not exactly an easy book to write, and I relied throughout on the judgment and penetrating editorial skills of my wife Carol, who spent many weeks disentangling it and pulling me back from the brink of excess. The songs from Lol Robinson’s Courtyard gig can be found on the CD,
Songs from Lucy’s Cottage
, obtainable through the website www.philrickman.co.uk. The background and locations for
The Lamp of the Wicked
are explored in
Merrily’s Border
by Phil Rickman, with pictures by John Mason, published by – Logaston Press.

One day the whole truth may come out. But I’m not holding my breath.

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