Acknowledgements
First of all, for their assistance with various aspects of this book, I would like to sincerely thank Trish Godfrey at Dover Library; Susan Leggett for helping with documents at the National Archives; the staff of the National Archives; Dr David J. Cox for his assistance with information regarding the Bow Street Principal Officers; Helen Woolven for answering various questions regarding police procedure.
In my research into the validity of the phantom skeleton discovery in 1963, I gratefully received the assistance of the following people: Sue Goodwin at Hawkinge Crematorium, Annette Jones at Shepway District Council, Hayley Edmunds, Brin Hughes, Mike Umbers, Sean McNally and Anne Petrie.
My thanks to Patrick Dengate for his super book cover and to Julia Gibbs for her proof-reading services.
Thanks to Jens Knoops for agreeing to appear in the book as himself. His hot chocolates truly are the best in the world—a must for anyone visiting Rye!
Thanks, as always to Robert Bristow for once again joining the adventure, being driver, helper, sounding-board, first reader and everything in between.
Finally, I would like to offer my sincere gratitude to my regular readers and ongoing supporters of the series. I have been very fortunate to receive encouragement from many of the most influential people working in genealogy today. In particular, I should like to thank Peter Calver at Lost Cousins; The Genealogy Guys (Drew Smith & George Morgan); DearMyrtle; Scott Fisher at Extreme Genes; Bobbi King and Dick Eastman; Sunny Morton and Lisa Louise Cooke at Genealogy Gems Podcast; Amy Lay and Penny Bonawitz at Genealogy Happy Hour; Andrew Chapman at Your Family History; Karen Clare at Family History magazine; Randy Seaver; Tina Sansome; Jill Ball; Shauna Hicks; Eileen Furlani Souza and all of the many Family History societies around the world which have run such kind reviews of the series. Your support is truly appreciated.
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Hiding the Past
(The Forensic Genealogist #1)
Peter Coldrick had no past; that was the conclusion drawn by years of personal and professional research. Then he employed the services of one Morton Farrier, Forensic Genealogist – a stubborn, determined man who uses whatever means necessary to uncover the past. With the Coldrick Case, Morton faces his toughest and most dangerous assignment yet, where all of his investigative and genealogical skills are put to the test. However, others are also interested in the Coldrick family, people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to hide the past. As Morton begins to unearth his client’s mysterious past, he is forced to confront his own family’s dark history, a history which he knows little about.
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The Lost Ancestor
(The Forensic Genealogist #2)
From acclaimed author, Nathan Dylan Goodwin comes this exciting new genealogical crime mystery, featuring the redoubtable forensic genealogist, Morton Farrier. When Morton is called upon by Ray Mercer to investigate the 1911 disappearance of his great aunt, a housemaid working in a large Edwardian country house, he has no idea of the perilous journey into the past that he is about to make. Morton must use his not inconsiderable genealogical skills to solve the mystery of Mary Mercer’s disappearance, in the face of the dangers posed by those others who are determined to end his investigation at any cost.
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The Orange Lilies
(The Forensic Genealogist #3)
Morton Farrier has spent his entire career as a forensic genealogist solving other people’s family history secrets, all the
