Funny: "The Author is Not To Blame...."

This is funny: In Harlan Cobin's book "One False Move"
'A Myron Bolitar Novel,' (which I recommend, as a good read) published Dell Fiction 1998

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wrote this book alone. Nobody helped me. But if mistakes were made, I wish to keep in the long-standing American tradition of passing the buck. So with that in mind, the author would like to thank the following wonderful people:...

[There follows a list of such people.]

Again, I repeat: Any errors--factual or otherwise--are totally the fault of these people. The author is not to blame.