6Confidences
119The Case of Oscar Brodski
7The 'Thumbograph'
120A Case of Premeditation
8Committed for Trial
121The Echo of a Mutiny
9Shoals and Quicksands
122A Wastrel's Romance
10A Suspicious Accident
123The Old Lag
11The Prisoner
124I. In Which I Make the Acquaintance of Captain Bithery
12Polton Is Mystified
125II. In Which I Set Out for Africa
13The Ambush
126III. I Hear Strange Stories and Vague Rumours
14It Might Have Been
127IV. I Visit a Graveyard and Meet a Blind Man
15Murder by Post
128V. I Encounter a Curious Relic
16A Startling Discovery
129VI. The Journal of Captain Barnabas Hogg
17The Finger-Print Experts
130VII. I Form an Absurd Resolution
18Thorndyke Plays His Card
131VIII. I Make a New Acquaintance
19At Last
132IX. I Bid Farewell to My Friends
20The Vanishing Man
133X. I Take to the Road
21The Eavesdropper
134XI. I Find Myself Among Enemies
22John Thorndyke
135XII. I Change My Identity
23Legal Complications and a Jackal
136XIII. The Golden Pool
24The Watercress-Bed
137XIV. I Am Led Into Captivity
25Sidelights
138XV. The Aboási Mine
26John Bellingham's Will
139XVI. I Assist in a Robbery and Become a Fugitive
27A Museum Idyll
140XVII. The Last of Bukári Moshi
28The Sphinx of Lincoln's Inn
141XVIII. I Again Become a Fugitive
29The New Alliance
142XIX. I Make My Appearance in a New Character
30The Evidence Reviewed
143XX. I Join a Party of Bohemians
31A Voyage of Discovery
144XXI. I Meet With Some Old Acquaintances
32The Crowner's Quest
145XXII. A Catastrophe
33Which Carries the Reader Into the Probate Court
146XXIII. I Make a Curious Discovery
34Circumstantial Evidence
147XXIV. I Return to an Old Trade
35"O! Artemidorus, Farewell!"
148XXV. I Set Out Upon My Voyage
36The Accusing Finger
149XXVI. I Put Out Into the Darkness
37John Bellingham
150XXVII. Ship Ahoy!
38A Strange Symposium
151XXVIII. In Which I Bid Farewell to the Reader
39The End of the Case
152I. In Which the Reader Makes a Genteel Acquaintance
40Preface
153II. In Which I Become Involved in a Tragedy
41The Mysterious Patient
154III. In Which I Am Cast Away
42Thorndyke Devises a Scheme
155IV. In Which I Meet Friends Both New and Old
43"A Chiel's Amang Ye Takin' Notes"
156V. In Which I Enter the Abode of Godliness
44The Official View
157VI. In Which I Meet a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
45Jeffrey Blackmore's Will
158VII. In Which I Experience Changes of Fortune
46Jeffrey Blackmore, Deceased
159VIII. In Which I Am Presented to My Cousin Percival
47The Cuneiform Inscription
160IX. In Which I Discover a New Enemy
48The Track Chart
161X. In Which I Have a Narrow Escape
49The House of Mystery
162XI. In Which We Approach a Strange Island
50The Hunter Hunted
163XII. In Which the Pirate Shows His Wit and His Heels
51The Blackmore Case Reviewed
164XIII. In Which I Am Marooned
52The Portrait
165XIV. In Which I Explore My New Territory
53The Statement of Samuel Wilkins
166XV. In Which I Find a Key to Unlock My Prison
54Thorndyke Lays the Mine
167XVI. In Which I Play the Eavesdropper
55Thorndyke Explodes the Mine
168XVII. In Which I Encounter a Most Genteel Rascal
56An Exposition and a Tragedy
169XVIII. In Which the Schooner Is Brought to Her Berth
57I. The Beginning of the Mystery
170XIX. In Which Captain Parradine Calls Checkmate
58II. The Finding of the Reliquary
171XX. In Which I Show Much Valour and Little Discretion
59III. "Who Is Sylvia?"
172XXI. In Which Mr. Murking Pilots the Charity To Her Last Berth
60IV. Septimus Maddock, Deceased
173XXII. In Which I Return to an Old Haunt
61V. The Lethal Chamber
174XXIII. In Which I Come to an Anchor at the Bell Inn
62VI. A Council of War
175XXIV. In Which My Cousin Percival Makes a Discovery
63VII. An Unseen Enemy
176XXV. In Which the Bells Are Rung in Shorne Steeple
64VIII. It's an Ill Wind—
177The Motive Force
65IX. Thorndyke Takes Up the Scent
178"Number One"
66X. The Unheeded Warning
179The Housemaid's Followers
67XI. A Chapter of Accidents
180The Gifts of Chance
68XII. Miss Vyne
181By-Products of Industry
69XIII. A Mysterious Stranger
182The Trail of the Serpent
70XIV. A Lonely Woman
183The Uttermost Farthing
71XV. Exit Dr. Jardine
184Preface
72XVI. Enter Father Humperdinck
185I. The Changeling
73XVII. The Palimpsest
186II. The Prison-Breaker
74XVIII. A Visitor From the States
187III. The Brazen Serpent
75XIX. Tenebrae
188IV. The Constable’s Helpmate
76XX. The Hue and Cry
189V. A Votive Candle
77XXI. The Final Problem
190VI. The Emperor’s Keepsake
78XXII. Thorndyke Reviews the Case
191VII. Woman and Superwoman
79Prologue
192VIII. The Good Samaritan
80I. The Crack of Doom
193IX. The “Prison Joseph”
81II. Astra Cura
194X. Peter Mockett’s Legacy
82III. The Covenant
195XI. Aunt Jemima
83IV. The Eleventh Hour
196XII. The Heavenly Twins
84V. On the Brink
197Epilogue
85VI. A Meeting and a Parting
198I
86VII. The Terms of Release
199II
87VIII. "Whom God Hath Joined—"
200III
88IX. Testimony and Counsel
201IV
89X. The Turning of the Page
202The Assyrian Rejuvenator
90XI. A Harbour of Refuge
203The Foreign Office Despatch
91XII. The Hidden Hand
204The Chicago Heiress
92XIII. A Crystal-Gazer and Other Matters
205The Lizard’s Scale
93XIV. Jasper Davenant
206The Paste Diamonds
94XV. The Magic Pendulum
207The Kailyard Novel
95XVI. The Sweated Artist
208The Submarine Boat
96XVII. The Apotheosis of the Titmouse
209The Kimblerley Fugitive
97XVIII. Among the Breakers
210The Silkworms of Florence
98XIX. Illusions and Disillusion
211The Box of Specie
99XX. Cloud and Sunshine
212The Silver Ingots
100XXI. A Dreadful Inheritance
213The House of Detention
101XXII. The Catastrophe
214The Adventure at Heath Crest
102XXIII. The Dead Hand
215How I Acted for and Invalid Doctor
103XXIV. The Gathering Clouds
216How I Attended a Nervous Patient
104XXV. Suspense: And a Discovery
217How I Met a Very Ignorant Practitioner
105XXVI. The Adjourned Inquiry
218How I Cured a Hopeless Paralytic
106XXVII. The Indictment
219How I Helped to Lay a Ghost
107XXVIII. The Verdict
220The Great Portrait Mystery (pt. 1)
108Epilogue
221The Great Portrait Mystery (pt. 2)
109PERCIVAL BLAND’S PROXY
222The Bronze Parrot
110THE MISSING MORTGAGEE
223Powder Blue and Hawthorn
111The Man With the Nailed Shoes
224The Attorney’s Conscience
112The Stranger's Latchkey
225The Luck of Barnabas Mudge
113The Anthropologist at Large
