Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
—Winnie the Pooh
Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.
—Will Rogers
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
—George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
When I was fourteen, Death came to my bedside and I said, “Please wait till after my recital on Sunday.” When I was twenty-four, Death came behind me at my desk and I said, “Please wait till I finish the book I have been writ- ing.” When I was forty-four, Death came again and I said, “Please wait till I finish this chapter.” When I was fifty-four, Death returned and I said, “Please let me fin- ish this paragraph.” When I was sixty-four, I said to Death, “Please let me finish this sentence.” When Death returns, I’ll say, “Please, one more word.”
—Rebecca Strum,
Mountains of the Moon
Everything has a moral, if only you can find it.
—Lewis Carroll
Lew Fonesca Mysteries
Vengeance
Retribution
Midnight Pass
Denial
Always Say Goodbye
Abe Lieberman Mysteries
Lieberman’s Folly
Lieberman’s Choice
Lieberman’s Day
Lieberman’s Thief
Lieberman’s Law
The Big Silence
Not Quite Kosher
The Last Dark Place
Toby Peters Mysteries
Bullet for a Star
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
You Bet Your Life
The Howard Hughes Affair
Never Cross a Vampire
High Midnight
Catch a Falling Clown
He Done Her Wrong
The Fala Factor
Down for the Count
The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance
Smart Moves
Think Fast, Mr. Peters
Buried Caesars
Poor Butterfly
The Melting Clock
The Devil Met a Lady
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Dancing in the Dark
A Fatal Glass of Beer
A Few Minutes Past Midnight
To Catch a Spy
Mildred Pierced
Now You See It
Porfiry Rostnikov Novels
Death of a Dissident
Black Knight in Red Square
Red Chameleon
A Cold, Red Sunrise
A Fine Red Rain
Rostnikov’s Vacation
The Man Who Walked Like a
Bear
Death of a Russian Priest
Hard Currency
Blood and Rubles
Tarnished Icons
The Dog Who Bit a Policeman
Fall of a Cosmonaut
Murder on the Trans-Siberian
Express
Nonseries Novels
When the Dark Man Calls
Exercise in Terror
Short Story Collections
Opening Shots
Hidden and Other Stories
Biographies
Don Siegel: Director
Clint Eastwood
John Huston, Maker of Magic
Coop: The Life and Legend of
Gary Cooper
Other Nonfiction
American Film Genres
American Television Genres
(with Jeffrey Mahan)
Basic Filmmaking
(with Dana Hodgdon)
Writing for Television
(with Mark Walker)
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
ALWAYS SAY GOODBYE
Copyright © 2006 by Double Tiger Productions, Inc.
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Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Always say goodbye : a Lew Fonesca mystery / Stuart M. Kaminsky.—1st hardcover ed.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
1. Fonesca, Lew (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Married women—Crimes against—Fiction. 3. Widowers—Fiction. 4. Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3561.A43A79 2006
813’.54—dc22
2006008398
First Edition: December 2006