Hi, Mr. Mcneill:
My favorite "goof" which nearly ruined the book was one of Margaret Truman's 
otherwise well researched (I guess) books set in Washington, D.C. and 
environs.  From her, I got a good sense of Georgetown.  However, her heroine 
visits her father in Calistoga, California, and after a late and leisurely 
breakfast, mentions that she has a noontime lunch appointment in San 
Francisco.  Unless her "late" breakfast ended by 9:30, she could not have 
made her appointment on time.  I believe Ms. Truman was deluded, as all 
easterners are, by the distances in the west.  The roads are too narrow 
(mostly two lane) through most of the county to achieve freeway speeds.  
That error in research overshadowed most of the rest of the book for me.
I see that you are from Utah.  Are you familiar with the detective series 
featuring a man whose first name is Moroni.  The author is named Irvine, and 
the location is southern Utah.  I'm sorry that I can't provide more 
information but I've been shuffling books between book-cases and cannot put 
my hand on them.  I would be interested in a "natives" point of view on the 
background.  I only know a small part of Utah (SLC to Provo).
Thank you for sharing your "goof" experience.  As a person unfamiliar with 
guns, I would not have caught that really egregious error.  I'll start 
looking for those now.  Myrl Pardee
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