The trail of the serpent
by M. E. Braddon
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Contents
- 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. Two 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.”
- 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 Quiet Figure on the Heath
- Chapter VII. The Usher Resigns His Situation
- 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
- Chapter IX. A Marriage in High Life
- Chapter X. Animal Magnetism
- 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
- 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
- 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