The Trail of the Serpent, an electronic edition

David Lyall [ Braddon, M.E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1837-1915 ]

date: [1867]
source publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
collection: Genre Fiction

Table of Contents

• front matter
  • covers
  • title page : full
  • table of contents
• book: THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT. 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. 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."
• 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 QUIET FIGURE ON THE HEATH.
  • CHAPTER VII. THE USHER RESIGNS HIS SITUATION.
• Book the Third. 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.
  • CHAPTER 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 THE LAST. FAREWELL TO ENGLAND.