The Trail of the Serpent

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Contents

1. 01Chapter I. The Good Schoolmaster.
2. 02Chapter II. Good for Nothing.
3. 03Chapter III. The Usher Washes His Hands.
4. 04Chapter IV. Richard Marwood Lights His Pipe.
5. 05Chapter V. The Healing Waters.
6. 06Chapter VI. Two Coroner’s Inquests.
7. 07Chapter VII. The Dumb Detective a Philanthropist.
8. 08Chapter VIII. Seven Letters on the Dirty Alphabet.
9. 09Chapter IX. “Mad, Gentlemen of the Jury.”
10. 10Book the Second.
11. 11Chapter I. Blind Peter.
12. 12Chapter II. Like and Unlike.
13. 13Chapter III. A Golden Secret.
14. 14Chapter IV. Jim Looks Over the Brink of the Terrible Gulf.
15. 15Chapter V. Midnight by the Slopperton Clocks.
16. 16Chapter VI. The Quiet Figure on the Heath.
17. 17Chapter VII. The Usher Resigns His Situation.
18. 18Book the Third.
19. 19Chapter I. The Value of an Opera-Glass.
20. 20Chapter II. Working in the Dark.
21. 21Chapter III. The Wrong Footstep.
22. 22Chapter IV. Ocular Demonstration.
23. 23Chapter V. The King of Spades.
24. 24Chapter VI. A Glass of Wine.
25. 25Chapter VII. The Last Act of Lucretia Borgia.
26. 26Chapter VIII. Bad Dreams and a Worse Waking.
27. 27Chapter IX. A Marriage in High Life.
28. 28Chapter X. Animal Magnetism.
29. 29Book the Fourth.
30. 30Chapter I. The Boy from Slopperton.
31. 31Chapter II. Mr. Augustus Darley and Mr. Joseph Peters Go Out Fishing.
32. 32Chapter III. The Emperor Bids Adieu to Elba.
33. 33Chapter IV. Joy and Happiness for Everybody.
34. 34Chapter V. The Cherokees Take an Oath.
35. 35Chapter VI. Mr. Peters Relates How He Thought He Had a Clue, and How He Lost It.
36. 36Book the Fifth.
37. 37Chapter I. The Count De Marolles at Home.
38. 38Chapter II. Mr. Peters Sees a Ghost.
39. 39Chapter III. The Cherokees Mark Their Man.
40. 40Chapter IV. The Captain, the Chemist, and the Lascar.
41. 41Chapter V. The New Milkman in Park Lane.
42. 42Chapter VI. Signor Mosquetti Relates an Adventure.
43. 43Chapter VII. The Golden Secret Is Told, and the Golden Bowl Is Broken.
44. 44Chapter VIII. One Step Further on the Right Track.
45. 45Chapter IX. Captain Lansdown Overhears a Conversation Which Appears to Interest Him.
46. 46Book the Sixth.
47. 47Chapter I. Father and Son.
48. 48Chapter II. Raymond De Marolles Shows Himself Better Than All Bow Street.
49. 49Chapter III. The Left-Handed Smasher Makes His Mark.
50. 50Chapter IV. What They Find in the Room in Which the Murder Was Committed.
51. 51Chapter V. Mr. Peters Decides on a Strange Step, and Arrests the Dead.
52. 52Chapter VI. The End of the Dark Road.
53. 53Chapter VII. Farewell to England.

About this edition

Author

M. E. Braddon

Language

English

Era

Modern (c. 1800–1945)

Reading level

Intermediate: some philosophy helps

Formats

EPUB, PDF

Length

438 pages

This edition

Modern Philosophers