Full Description
This is Braddon's debut novel, first published in 1860. It has all the usual elements of a sensation novel, but its role as a detective novel is arguably more important. The present edition includes the text of the 1866 edition. It is accompanied by two appendices and 292 explanatory notes.
Contents
Introduction by Catherine M. Welter; Chronology; Note on the text; 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: THe 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 Quieet Figure on the Heath; Chapter VII: The Usher Resigns His Situation; Book the Third: A 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; Chaptger 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 VII: Farewell to England; Appendix I: Publisher's Announcement (to the 1866 Edition); Appendix II: "My First Novel," by M.E. Braddon
