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