Dear Mr Cornwell, I read your bulletin board today (25/10/08) and someone has asked for more news of Lucille. Hooray, I’m not alone in feeling that Sharpe deserves a “History”. Why, as a hero did you not reward him with a Major or colonels pension instead of a run down farm that he could not afford to rejuvenate. Starbucks chronicle tells us that he died in 1860 and his son is in the french cavalry so why not a book about Patrick Lassan that could be set in the Crimean war in 1854, Sharpe would be 72 years old and could make a cameo appearance to explain his later years. P.S. On another web site (I forget which) a writer says that Jane Sharpe died in 1840 or 44 and that Sharpe married Lucille then, is this right? Love your books and speed to your pen. Mike Walker. Worcester, England