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Preface: a Tour of Ephesus by Finlay McQuade Readers who have visited the ancient city of Ephesus and remember something of its buildings and topography may appreciate the stories in this collection in a way that is unavailable to those who have never been there. Each story deals with a major event in the history of Ephesus and takes place in and around its most memorable buildings. Those of you who have visited the site will recall some of the things you saw and maybe some of the things your tour guide told you. Perhaps you wondered, as I did, about the people who lived in those empty buildings. Who were they? What was important to them? How were they touched by the history that sometimes took them unawares? When writing each story I tried to imagine what might really have happened, remaining true to history where the history is known and inventing plausible details where the history is unknown. But stories told in print require a reader also to imagine. That...