# Dedication explained — The Door with Seven Locks

> Chapter companion for The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace.

## What happens

The author dedicates the book to H. B. Lawford, Esq., acknowledging him as a just man and Worshipful Master of the Drapers Company for 1925–1926.

## Key lines

> To My Friend H. B. Lawford, Esq. (“A Just Man”) Worshipful Master of the Drapers Company, 1925⁠–⁠1926

This book is dedicated to my friend H. B. Lawford, who is described as a righteous person and served as the Worshipful Master of the Drapers Company during 1925–1926.

_The dedication honors a personal friend and his role in a historic London guild._

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