Excerpts from the diary of

Mrs. Ruth Frazer
(R.E. Sinclair that was)

 The Adventure of the Dying Scholars

1. A Day of Peculiar Events

2. A Steet Full of Bodies

3. The Merton's Would Be Scandalized!



The Adventure of the Felonious Phantom

 1. A Restless Atmosphere

 2. We Return to Our Usual
Style

 3. Now Comes the Anxiety

 4. I'm Sure It's Perfectly
Innocent

 5. Field Notes

 6. An Exercise in Aggravation



The Adventure of the Castaway Cartographer

 1. Pitched Headlong into Action

 2. Not a meek, invisible Governess

 3. Chilling Reminders

 4. Peculiar Encounters

 5. Rendered Senseless and Scattered

 6. Quite a Different Problem



Home to Roost

 1. Inconspicuous Again

 2. A Maniacally Busy Night

 3. There is always an emergency

 4. Many challenges to my composure

 5. A riotous night

 6. Whatever mayhem comes naturally



Exit Merrily, Pursued by Castinets

 Murder and Singing

 A momentous letter

 For once, no fighting required
     



Death on the Iron Rhine

 1. A Divot in the Landscape

 2. My hands full

2a. What a tangle

 3. Vigorous action required

 3a. Many questions remain

 4. Truly horrible

 5. The Americans were trouble

 6. A brazen challenge

 6a. The Missing List

 6b. A tear-stained letter

7. Entirely out of proportion

 8. Anarchists and Wild Children

 9. Almost according to plan

 9a. Should hate to make a scene

 9b. Mother seemed vaguely troubled
     



Evil Takes No Holiday

 1. Confronting a hydra

 2. A wild careening of horses and carriages

 3. Time enough, yet, for another disaster

 3a. Case notes

 4. Never so mortified!

4a. My dear Miss Chigwidgeon

4b. The books contradict one another

 4c. Regarding Humphrey
 



The Puzzle of the Moss-covered Stone

 1. Strange selections

 1a. A letter home

 2. Objects unearthed

 3. Difficult conditions

 3a. Long dreaded Advice

 3b. What would they know of
practical anarchy?



The Atlantean Debacle

 1. They were wagering on it!

 2. Ominous anonymous warnings

2a. Case notes 

 3. At least they weren't born in a foreign submersible

 4. A rather hair-raising time

 5. Even more inconvenient

 6. Choked with fury

 7. Hazardous and wearying work
 8. That infuriatingly reasonable voice



The Problem of the Heavenly Mechanism

 1. An inscrutable nature

 2. A dangerous maniac

 3. Two Mrs Salmalins and two Mrs Cuthberts

 4. Not surprised by our antics

 5. Certainly tricky
 
     



The Strange Tale of the Island Astray

 1. Considerably more conspicuous
 2. Much trouble on themselves
 3. What to do with captured pirates
 4. Stubborn and impulsive
   

8. Tiresome
9. She thrives in utter chaos
 10. Unproductive battles
   

Magic In Any Language
1. This serpent nonsense





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