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
 






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