Question: In what year was the novel featuring the character Bill the Lizard written?

Context articles: The Saint and the People Importers
Syd Courtenay
Bill the Lizard
The Keepers of Truth
Ol' Rip the Horned Toad
Batman: The Ultimate Evil
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Silence of the Lambs (film)
Making Money
The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace

The Saint and the People Importers is the title of a 1971 mystery novel featuring the character of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint".
 The novel is credited to Leslie Charteris, who created the Saint in 1928, but the book was actually co-authored by Fleming Lee.
 It is a novelization of the episode "The People Importers" from the 1962-69 TV series, "The Saint", originally written by Donald James.
 The episode sprang from an original outline by Lee, though this was discarded by the time the story hit TV screens.
 For the novelisation Lee went back to the original premise.
Syd Courtenay was a South African-born British actor and screenwriter.
 He was a frequent collaborator with the comedian Leslie Fuller.
 Courtenay first met Fuller in 1919 in Margate and they soon struck up a partnership with routines featuring their comedic character Bill.
 With the arrival of sound films they were signed to British International Pictures and made their first film "Not So Quiet on the Western Front" in 1930.
 They made a large number of films during the 1930s, generally featuring the character of Bill, with Courtenay writing and acting in many of them.
 He was married to Lola Harvey, who co-wrote a number of films with him.
Bill the Lizard is a fictional character appearing in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
The Keepers of the Truth is a novel by Michael Collins, first published in 2000.
 Set in the late 1970s, the story follows the main character Bill and his attempt to unravel a murder-mystery as a cub reporter for a local newspaper in a small Midwest industrial town.
Ol' Rip (died January 19, 1929) was a horned lizard (commonly referred to as a "horned toad" or "horny toad") whose supposed 31-year hibernation as an entombed animal is believed by some and doubted by others.
 His name is a reference to the fictional character Rip Van Winkle.
 In 1897, a horned lizard was placed in a cornerstone of the Eastland County Courthouse in Eastland, Texas along with other time capsule memorabilia.
 When the courthouse was torn down 31 years later, the cornerstone was opened on February 18, 1928, a live horned lizard was produced, allegedly from within the time capsule.
 The lizard became a celebrity, and went on tour, even being taken to Washington, D.C. to meet President Calvin Coolidge.
Batman: The Ultimate Evil is a novel written by Andrew Vachss and published in 1995 by the Warner Aspect imprint of Warner Books.
 Vachss was an attorney specializing in child abuse cases, as well as a crime novelist best known for his series of books featuring the character Burke, a private investigator who also takes on child abuse cases.
 A representative from DC Comics approached Vachss about the possibility of writing a novel featuring Batman.
 Viewing this as an opportunity to reach a completely different audience, Vachss agreed and wrote a draft.
 He continued with his themes concerning child sexual abuse and explored the topic of child sex tourism.
 The publisher required Vachss to follow certain rules, like making a clear distinction between fiction and reality and prohibiting the Batman character from killing, cursing, or having sex.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 fantasy novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
 It tells of a girl named
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American horror-thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn.
 Adapted by Ted Tally from the 1988 novel of the same name by Thomas Harris, his second to feature the character of Dr. Hannibal Lecter; a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, the film was the second adaptation of a Harris novel featuring Lecter, preceded by the Michael Mann-directed "Manhunter" in 1986.
 In the film, Clarice Starling, a young U.S. FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill".
Making Money is a Terry Pratchett novel in the "Discworld" series, first published in the UK on 20 September 2007.
 It is the second novel featuring Moist von Lipwig, and involves the Ankh-Morpork mint and specifically the introduction of paper money to the city.
 The novel won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2008, and was nominated for the Nebula Award the same year.
The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace is the title of a 1976 mystery novel featuring the character of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint".
 The novel is written by Christopher Short, but per the custom at this time, the author credit on the cover goes to Leslie Charteris, who created the Saint in 1928, and who served in an editorial capacity.