Mr Cornwell, I’m sure thousands of savvy Sharpe fans are racing to tell you, in reply to Ms. Sandy Fawle’s letter of Nov 23rd, that you killed off Hogan in Sharpe’s Siege- he died of yellow fever by the time Sharpe got back from that harrowing business at the Teste de Buch fortress in the Basin of Arcachon. One of my favorites ! R. Kulb