Bone Dance (36 page)

Barbara Fradkin
's work as a child psychologist supplies ample inspiration for murder. Her short stories haunt numerous anthologies and magazines, including the four previous Ladies' Killing Circle anthologies, and her detective novels
(Do or Die, Once Upon a Time
and
Mist Walker)
feature the exasperating Inspector Green, whose love of the hunt often interferes with family, friends and police protocol
. Once Upon a Time
was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award in the category of Best Novel in 2002
.

There was an opera singer from Perth

And a critic who made fun of her girth.

“Her notes get flatter

As she gets fatter.”

Now he's being spoon-fed by the nurth.

Joy Hewitt Mann

The titles of the stories in this book were taken from existing songs. We have done our best to give proper credit for composition, publishing and copyright
.

Knocking on Heaven's Door:
by Bob Dylan, Ram's Horn Music, copyright 1973

There's No Business Like Show Business:
From the Broadway show
Annie Get Your Gun
, Irving Berlin Music Company, copyright 1946

Don't Cry for Me Argentina:
From the musical
Evita
, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice, copyright 1976

When the Red, Red Robin:
by Harry Woods, 1926

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles:
Words and music by Jaan Kenbrovin and John William Kellette, Remick Music Corporation, copyright 1950

Brian's Song:
From
The Hands of Time
, music by Michel Legrand, lyrics by Marilyn & Alan Berman, copyright 1972

Summertime:
From the opera
Porgy and Bess
after the novel
Porgy
by DuBose Heyward, music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, 1935

Rock-a-Bye Baby:
Traditional lullaby, author unknown

Let Me Drive:
Music and words by Georgette Fry, copyright 2000, Spare Rib Records (SOCAN). Lyrics used by permission.

Them There Eyes:
by Maceo Pinkard, William Tracey, Doris Tauber. Published by Bourne Company, copyright 1930

Two Little Girls in Blue:
by Charles Graham. Published by Spaulding and Kornder, 1893

When Laura Smiles:
Elizabethan madrigal, words by Thomas Campion, 1567-1620, music Philip Rosseter, 1568-1623

Three Coins in the Fountain:
Words by Sammy Chan, Music by Jules Styne, Cathy Music Co., copyright 1954

The Night Chicago Died:
by Peter Robin Callander and Mitch Murray, published by Dick James Music Ltd. (PRS)/PRI Music Inc. (ASCAP)/Universal Songs of Polygram (BMI), copyright 1974, Intune Lts.

Wake Up Little Suzie:
by Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, Acuff-Rose Publications, copyright 1957

From This Wicked Fall:
by the abbess Hildegard of Bingen, 1179

Hokey Pokey:
Written by Roland Lawrence LaPrise in the late 1940s and recorded by The Ram Trio in 1949. After the Ram Trio disbanded in the 1960s, Roy Acuff's publishing company bought the rights. Copyright 1950, Acuff-Rose Music Inc.

The Minstrel Boy:
Thomas Moore from
Irish Melodies, Volume 5
, ca. 1820.

H. Mel Malton

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