Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter v
2. Contents ix
3. Tables xii
4. Introduction xiii
5. The Full Strength of the Organization 3
6. A Canonical Rule of Three 6
7. The Name is Familiar to Me 14
8. The Absence of Thomas 18
9. A Scarlet Study in Southsea 21
10. A Strong Family Resemblance 29
11. Scandalous Bohemian Names 35
12. Red-Headed Conundrum 39
13. Five Pips for Gloria Scott 44
14. Boscombe, Boone, and the Band 51
15. The Doctors’ Quarter Part I 56
16. No Rule of Thumb for Engineers 68
17. An Ungovern(ess)able Situation 72
18. Journey to Birmingham 75
19. Croydon, Norbury, and West Sussex 79
20. Aldershot, Reigate, and Old Soldiers 83
21. Patience in Brook Street 88
22. The Final Memoirs 92
23. Name that Hound, and His Friends 99
24. Nameplates on the Empty House 109
25. Murder on Home Ground 119
26. Dancing Norfolk Names 123
27. The Bicycle Craze 128
28. Priory Pride in Names 131
29. The Initialled Tobacco-Pouch 136
30. Charles Augustus 142
31. The Bust-Breaker of Baker Street 146
32. Too Big for their Cantabritches 152
33. The Terrible Death of Willoughby Smith 155
34. Three-Quarters of Trinity College 160
35. The Game Afoot at Marsham 165
36. The Spy and the Spot 167
37. Wistful Lodgers in the Wisteria 172
38. Underground or Underwater, Deadly 178
39. Who the Devil was the Ladyin the Red Circle? 185
40. Dying Despite the Doctors 195
41. A Maze, Amaze, a Mazarin 199
42. Thor Bridge Still a Problem 203
43. A Remarkable Collection of V’s 207
44. Alias Three Forgers 211
45. A Few Illustrious Names, and Others 214
46. The Three-Gabled Fable 218
47. Something of the Final Five 221
48. Into the Valley, with Fear 228
49. The Noble Bachelors, and Benedicts 237
50. A Surplus in Surplices 241
51. Such Nice Neighbours 251
52. A Few of the Signs 265
53. Four Adventures, Fourteen Names 272
54. Who the Blazes—? 278
55. The Creeping Man and his Last Bow 281
56. What about the Others? 285
57. The End of the Adventures 290
58. L’Envoi 303
59. Notes 305
60. Some Sources of the Sources: Bibliography 327
61. Key to Abbreviations of Titles 343
62. Index 345