Talk:Murder, part 2/@comment-80.7.43.243-20190111194640/@comment-112.206.196.226-20200623034740

@Yashirmare

The inspection takes place in 1807, the boat was deemed lost at sea by 1803. If the flashbacks took place in the 1700's, we'd be writing the book at the request of a man who'd been dead for a century, Henry Evans. In the epilogue, Jane Bird outright says that it had been 5 years since the disaster, meaning 1808 - 5, = 1803.