Book the first: A respectable young man. The good schoolmaster -- Good for nothing -- The usher washes his hands -- Richard Marwood lights his pipe -- The healing waters -- Two coroner's inquests -- The dumb detective a philanthropist -- Seven letters on the dirty alphabet -- "Mad, gentlemen of the jury" -- Book the second: A clearance of all scores. Blind Peter -- Like and unlike -- A golden secret -- Jim looks over the brink of the terrible gulf -- Midnight by the Slopperton clocks -- The quiet figure on the heath -- The usher resigns his situation -- Book the third: A holy institution. The value of an opera-glass -- Working in the dark -- The wrong footstep -- Ocular demonstration -- The king of spades -- A glass of wine -- The last act of Lucretia Borgia -- Bad dreams and a worse waking -- A marriage in high life -- Animal magnetism -- Book the fourth: Napoleon the great. The boy from Slopperton -- Mr. Augustus Darley and Mr. Joseph Peters go out fishing -- The emperor bids adieu to Elba -- Joy and happiness for everybody -- The Cherokees take an oath -- Mr. Peters relates how he thought he had a clue, and how he lost it -- Book the fifth: The dumb detective. The Count de Marolles at home -- Mr. Peters sees a ghost -- The Cherokees mark their man -- The captain, the chemist, and the lascar -- The new milkman in Park Lane -- Signor Mosquetti relates an adventure -- The golden secret is told, and the golden bowl is broken -- One step further on the right track -- Captain Lansdown overhears a conversation which appears to interest him -- Book the sixth: On the track. Father and son -- Raymond de Marolles shows himself better than all Bow Street -- The left-handed smasher makes his mark -- What they find in the room in which the murder was committed -- Mr. Peters decides on a strange step, and arrests the dead -- The end of the dark road -- Chapter the last: Farewell to England. Afterword / Chris Willis -- Appendix: My first novel / Mary Elizabeth Braddon.