Mariticide Club - Wives Who Kill is dedicated to my father's starter wife Helen Grace Byrd who shot my father. When I met Helen in Dallas in 1948 I took the opportunity to thank her for making my life possible. If she had not shot my father in the chest with her .25 caliber Beretta pistol and then burned down his residence, never would he have escaped her, then met, romanced and married my mother who then brought me into the world I enjoy so much. My father's starter wife Helen Grace Byrd bedding with Hymie in pari delicto in 1930 shot my father when he returned home early unexpectedly from a business trip using a .25 caliber Beretta 418 Pocket Pistol that became her engagement gift to her daughter my older half-sister Dorothy calling herself "Carole" in A Perfect Crime my historical novel you may enjoy next.