Author’s Note

When I was young and worked very hastily and from need, I wrote a novel called Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane! (1967). Its basic concept was surely the best I have ever created, but what was published was just as surely no more than the notes for a novel—some sketches, unformed, unfinished, lacking even a plot.

But the idea mattered to me, so once again I have written a novel based on it. This time I know it is the best that I can do.