Dear Sir, Has someone been putting hashish into your blasted crumpets? With all due respect, you placed the Hachaliah reference in the book of Esdras, rather than in Nehemiah, and unless you were using the Vulgate instead of the King James Bible, I can only assume you must have been stoned. Try smoking banana peels like we do here in the States…. Ronald A Naccarella

what a truly pleasant surprise to me not only to discover your writings ie Thomas & Derfel, but also to find you have written so proflifically — right when I thought I had read everything good in the world twice already. Thank you.