Introduction by Catherine M. Welter; Chronology; Note on the text; Book the First: A Respectable Young Man; Chapter I: The Good Schoolmaster; Chapter II: Good for Nothing; Chapter III: The Usher Washes His Hands; Chapter IV: Richard Marwood Lights His Pipe; Chapter V: The Healing Waters; Chapter VI: THe Coroner's Inquests; Chapter VII: The Dumb Detective a Philanthropist; Chapter VIII: Seven Letters on the Dirty Alphabet; Chapter IX: "Mad, Gentlemen of the Jury"; Book the Second: A Clearance of All Scores; Chapter I: Blind Peter; Chapter II: Like and Unlike; Chapter III: A Golden Secret; Chapter IV: Jim Looks over the Brink of the Terrible Gulf; Chapter V: Midnight by the Slopperton Clocks; Chapter VI: The Quieet Figure on the Heath; Chapter VII: The Usher Resigns His Situation; Book the Third: A Holy Institution; Chapter I: The Value of an Opera-Glass; Chapter II: Working in the Dark; Chapter III: The Wrong Footstep; Chapter IV: Ocular Demonstration; Chapter V: The King of Spades; Chapter VI: A Glass of Wine; Chapter VII: The Last Act of Lucretia Borgia; Chapter VIII: Bad Dreams and a Worse Waking; Chaptger IX: A Marriage in High Life; Chapter X: Animal Magnetism; Book the Fourth: Napoleon the Great; Chapter I: The Boy from Slopperton; Chapter II: Mr. Augustus Darley and Mr. Joseph Peters Go Out Fishing; Chapter III: The Emperor Bids Adieu to Elba; Chapter IV: Joy and Happiness for Everybody; Chapter V: The Cherokees Take an Oath; Chapter VI: Mr. Peters Relates How He Thought He Had a Clue, and How He Lost It; Book the Fifth: The Dumb Detective; Chapter I: The Count de Marolles at Home; Chapter II: Mr. Peters Sees a Ghost; Chapter III: The Cherokees Mark Their Man; Chapter IV: The Captain, the Chemist, and the Lascar; Chapter V: The New Milkman in Park Lane; Chapter VI: Signor Mosquetti Relates an Adventure; Chapter VII: The Golden Secret Is Told, and the Golden Bowl Is Broken; Chapter VIII: One Step Further on the Right Track; Chapter IX: Captain Lansdown Overhears a Conversation Which Appears to Interest Him; Book the Sixth: On the Track; Chapter I: Father and Son; Chapter II: Raymond de Marolles Shows Himself Better Than All Bow Street; Chapter III: The Left-Handed Smasher Makes His Mark; Chapter IV: What They Find in the Room in Which the Murder Was Committed; Chapter V: Mr. Peters Decides on a Strange Step, and Arrests the Dead; Chapter VI: The End of the Dark Road; Chapter VII: Farewell to England; Appendix I: Publisher's Announcement (to the 1866 Edition); Appendix II: "My First Novel," by M.E.
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