Mark the Calendar:
1813. Sharpe rescues Helena and bags some loot.
--Bernard Cornwell: The Sharpe Saga.
2540: Bernice Summerfield is born.
--Lance Parkin: Just War.
Archie Goodwin salutes the finale of the Fer-de-Lance and then witnesses a plane crash.
--Rex Stout: Fer-de-Lance.
Miss Witherfield pays a call on George Nupkins, Esquire, to report an impending duel.
--Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers.