Excerpts from the diary of
Alexander Graves
Butler in the household of Sir Cosmo Cowperthwaite
Nº 18 Charles Street
Mayfair, London

 The Adventure of the Dying Scholars
1. A Curious Cigarette Case
2. A Battle in the Burough
3. Two Perilous Rescues

The Adventure of the Felonious Phantom
 1. Open Season
 2. The Fiery Phantom!
 3. An Unusual Witness

 4. The Season Stops for No One

 5. The Grim Business
 

The Adventure of the Castaway Cartographer
 1. A Confrontation with Mortality
   


Home to Roost
 1. All Come Home
 2. Bloodied, but victorious
 3. Tears of Joy
 4. Intriguing developments
 5. A new round of trouble
 6. Guests, guests, and more guests





Exit Merrily, Pursued by Castanets
 1. Perhaps some sort of nightmare
 2. Foreign noble seeks potential mate
 


Death on the Iron Rhine
 1. Gratifying News
 2. Who could believe?
 


Evil Takes No Holiday
 3. Vision and Vincibility
 4. Ambush and Ambiguity
 


The Puzzle of the Moss-covered Stone
 1. Something uncanny

 3. Sometimes it is best…
 

The Atlantean Debacle
 1. All this excitement
 2. Scattered to the winds
 
 
5. Tumult and (family) turmoil 
 6. Out of sorts
 7. Unravelling
   


The Problem of the Heavenly Mechanism
 1. Milady Maternal
   
 4. Interminable Inquisitory
 5. Disturbance Diabolic
 

The Strange Tale of the Island Astray
   12. Look homeward
 

The Mystery of the Dying Clockwork

1. Additions to the households







9. My head is still spinning




The Importance of Being Atlas
1. Further distresses



5. A tragic turn

Best Face Forward, or Pearls, Curls, and the Spotless Complexion
1. Wooster in a Lather
2. Bubble Trouble




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Cole's Aerial Vessel published in Scientific American, 1887, which puts it well into the public domain.