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* In ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'', Bernice meets a teenage girl dressed in black with dark hair who seems familiar to her. The girl says that her job is to turn off the lights once everybody's gone. The girl is intended to be {{w|Death (DC Comics)|the version}} of [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]] from [[Neil Gaiman]]'s {{wi|The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman}}. | * In ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'', Bernice meets a teenage girl dressed in black with dark hair who seems familiar to her. The girl says that her job is to turn off the lights once everybody's gone. The girl is intended to be {{w|Death (DC Comics)|the version}} of [[Death (Timewyrm: Revelation)|Death]] from [[Neil Gaiman]]'s {{wi|The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman}}. | ||
* In ''[[The Death of Art (novel)|The Death of Art]]'', Anton Jarre recalls meeting a Belgian police sergeant who is clearly intended to be a young [[Hercule Poirot]]. | * In ''[[The Death of Art (novel)|The Death of Art]]'', Anton Jarre recalls meeting a Belgian police sergeant who is clearly intended to be a young [[Hercule Poirot]]. | ||
* In ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'', Lady [[Creighton-Ward]] (''[[Thunderbirds (series)|Thunderbirds]]''), [[Geoffrey Hoyt]] ({{wi|Medics ( | * In ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'', Lady [[Creighton-Ward]] (''[[Thunderbirds (series)|Thunderbirds]]''), [[Geoffrey Hoyt]] ({{wi|Medics (British TV series)|Medics}}) and [[Emma Knight]] (''[[The Avengers]]'') appear at a party. Mention is made of a planned [[nuclear-waste storage facility]] on [[the Moon]] in [[1999|two years]] (''[[Space: 1999]]''), the first [[manned flight]] to [[Jupiter]] [[2001|two years]] after that ({{wi|2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey}}), [[MI6]]'s [[double-O agent]]s (''[[James Bond]]''), the [[IMF]] ({{wi|Mission: Impossible}}), and [[Omega Sector]] ({{wi|True Lies}}). | ||
* In ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'', mention is made of an English village named [[Little Storping]]. A village with the same name appears in "Murdersville", an episode of ''The Avengers''. | * In ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'', mention is made of an English village named [[Little Storping]]. A village with the same name appears in "Murdersville", an episode of ''The Avengers''. | ||
* In ''[[The Fall of Yquatine (novel)|The Fall of Yquatine]]'', [[Fitz Kreiner]] is said to have worked at the [[Mother Black Cap]] in [[Camden Town]] in the [[1960s]]. This is a reference to the film ''[[Withnail and I]]'', which is set in the same time period and features a pub of the same name in the same location. | * In ''[[The Fall of Yquatine (novel)|The Fall of Yquatine]]'', [[Fitz Kreiner]] is said to have worked at the [[Mother Black Cap]] in [[Camden Town]] in the [[1960s]]. This is a reference to the film ''[[Withnail and I]]'', which is set in the same time period and features a pub of the same name in the same location. |