November 25 Mark the Calendar

November 25 Mark the Calendar

1872 - Fleeing Daleks, the TARDIS stows away on the Marie Celeste. Terry Nation: The Chase.

1996. Mulder organizes an FBI raid in Queens that stops an apparent plot by American revolutionaries to stage a major bombing. He takes Krycek into custody. Chris Carter: The X-Files.

Sir Bohun Chantrey hosts a Sherlock Holmes theme dinner. Gladys Mitchell: Watson's Choice.

November 22 Mark the Calendar

November 22 Mark the Calendar

1888. Tarzan, John Clayton, III, Lord Greystoke, is born. Philip Jose Farmer: Tarzan Alive.

1932. Napoleon Solo is born in Montréal. Sam Rolfe: The Man from UNCLE.

1963. Lone Gunman John Fitzgerald Byers was born. The Smoking Man gets Lee Harvey Oswald to leave a rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository. Chris Carter: The X-Files.

November 2 Mark the Calendar

November 2 Mark the Calendar:

1934. Wolfe and Archie argue the finer points of obscenity law. Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe: The League of Frightened Men.

1994. Emily is born. Chris Carter: The X-Files.

October 7 Mark the Calendar

October 7 Mark the Calendar

1811 Mr. Bennett pays a call on Mr. Bingley.
- Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

1886. Holmes investigates a death and declares it a murder by committee.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: The Resident Patient.

1999. West Virginia native Lynette Peattie is critically injured in a bus rollover.
-Chris Carter: The X-Files.

Last Seen in Aberdeen by M G Kincaid

Page 154:

DS Frank Gaither’s work style was methodical and diligent. He had a patience that seemed unnatural and was, at times, maddening because you couldn’t hurry the man, no matter what you did. He was the absolute best to have at a crime scene.

Once Were Cops by Ken Bruen

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Dylan had come to Galway when I was a Guard, and I pulled crowd control. Beautiful sunny July day and no trouble. What I remember is this wizened gnome, crunched in on himself, singing in a croaked twisted voice. The crowd loved him, he was sixty and he had a charisma, small as he was, a kind of radiance, and after, when we were escorting him to his car, he mumbled something that only later I realized was ... thanks. You know, that impressed me more than his whole concert.

Murder by the Book by Rex Stout

It's in there somewhere:

"His face, chronically red, deepened a shade. His broad shoulders stiffened, and the creases spreading from the corners of his gray-blue eyes showed more as the eyelids tightened. Then, deciding I was playing for a burt, he controlled it. "Do you know," he asked, "whose opinion of you I would like to have? Darwin's. Where were you while evolution was going on?" (Inspector Cramer addresses Archie Goodwin)