Excerpts from the diary of
Mrs. Victoria Salmalin
(Miss Victoria Whitnell that was)

 The Adventure of the Dying Scholars
1. A Death in the Family
2. No Rest for the Weary
3. Trouble on the Thames

4. Eventful Visits

 


The Adventure of the Felonious Phantom
 1. Everyone in Season
 2. The Greedy Flames!
3. The Murders Multiply

4. A Mishap and a Reminder
 
 5. The Blood Drained from His Face
 6. All Manner of Strangeness


The Adventure of the Castaway Cartographer
 1. A Revelation!
 2. A Puzzling Conclusion
 3. We are underway
 3a. A report and a letter
 4. Wooster is in Charge!
 5. St. Damian Island, at last
6. A Strange Audience
 7. Separated!
 8. Compelled to write 
9. Very Little Hope
 10. The Strangest Suggestion
 11. Somewhat Frayed at the Edges


Home to Roost
 1. Running about the city!
 2. No time for conversation
 3. Disturbing news
 4. Very perplexed
5. Odd dreams
 6. An unending whirlwind


Exit Merrily, Pursued by Castanets
 Mrs. Cuthbert Saves the Day
 A suddenly full week
 A hobgoblin and a dragon
 In-law antics
 We presented a riot
 


Death on the Iron Rhine
 1. A Talent for Trouble
 2. Abductions
 3. Kali Laughing
 4. A Dreadful Day
5. Little did we know…
5a. Conversing with madmen
 6. Writing to the Enemy
 6a. Four-square consequences
 7. Blood pooled around my skirts
 8. No time to put things right
 9. An unfortunate tendency
 9a. Repercussions
 9b. Feeling very alone
 9c. A bustle of preparations
 


Evil Takes No Holiday
 1. Very trying to the nerves
 2. A blur of action
 3. States of anxiety
 4. No one fainted
4a. Strange things in the night
4b. I had been set up
4c. Table-shaking news
   


The Puzzle of the Moss-covered Stone
1. Dark places
2. Terrible and sublime
3. All over but the report writing
 3a. Family Trouble
   


The Atlantean Debacle
 1. How was I to know?
 2. I am quite worried
 3. After I had been shot…
 4. Despite the best intentions
 5. My hands were covered in blood
 6. Infuriatingly intelligent
 7. Not Edward's fault
8. True colours shown at last
8a. Slipped my mind
8b. I am stunned
8c. Not as productive as hoped
 


The Problem of the Heavenly Mechanism
1. Pushing limits
 2. Abuse of power
 3. Forces rising around us
 4. A most disheartening sight
 5. Incandescently angry
 
6a. Heaviness of spirit
 6b. Unusual collection of people
6c. Concocted a plan
 6d. A bit of a quandary
   

The Strange Tale of the Island Astray
1. Rapidly out of hand
2. A very disturbing vision
3. Amaze and frighten
 4. Trouble and vexation
5. More than I could take in
 6. Distressing look
7. Horrifying spectacle
8. A matter of great concern
9. Driven to drastic action
10. Hope in this bleak picture
11. Wet and disordered
12. King of a Thousand Years

Magic in Any Language, or the Absent Antecedent
1. Message from the Dark Mother





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Zoology Plate 23 published in Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art 1851, which puts it well into the public domain.