Sivan's Talking Watch

 Excerpts from the diary of

Miss Wilhelmina Brody

(Gentle reader: This manuscript came into our possession without note or explanation. The handwriting is a very compact, somewhat florid script. Internal evidence indicates that the author became associated with the household of Sir Cosmo Cowperthwaite, Bart, during the first months chronicled. However, we have not been able to verify either her exact identity or her relationship to the persons named herein. - the Editors)

 The Adventure of the Dying Scholars

1. I Adopt a Desperate Plan

2. McGroaty Gets His Just Desserts

3. Edward Does Not Come Home!



The Adventure of the Felonious Phantom

 1. The Evil Book Jailor

 2. Strange Encounters

 3. Edward is Dashing

 4. Unfinished Business
   



The Adventure of the Castaway Cartographer

 1. I took a risk

 2. Dangerous Things

 3. Interrupted, again!

 4. A Noteworthy Discovery

 



Home to Roost

 1. I could just scream!

 2. The effrontery!

 3. Thank goodness

 4. The Tower
   



Exit Merrily, Pursued by Castenets

 1. A nasty piece of work

 2. Couldn't find demon
 



Death on the Iron Rhine

 1. Mechanical imbecile

 2. Must remember…

 3. A jolly time to have a war

 4. Scurrying off to some place else

 5.All a dither

 6. Vexed at me

 6a. Almost civilized

 6b. Back in London

 6c. Bullies

 6d. Cordially invited
   



Evil Takes No Holiday

 1.Shocking discoveries

 2. A waste of talent

 3. Too much to bear

 4. Mental deficiencies

 5. Studies progressing nicely

 6. I forgot I was wearing shoes

 7. Rubbish removal

 



The Puzzle of the Moss-covered Stone

 1. Oddities lying about
 

 3. Bigger than I anticipated

 3a. So condescending

 3b. A most flattering story

 3c. How could they think such a thing?



The Atlantean Debacle
or, a Girl and Her Submersible

 1. A curious man

 2. A jumped up bungler

 3. I failed

 4. In jail

 5. English women are crazy

 6. An unusual day

 7. An end to the matter

 8. The lack of nerve

 8a. Keeping notes
     



The Problem of the Heavnly Mechanism
or, the Divine Commodity
   

3. Dear Dr Wilson
 

7. A disturbing inclination 

7a. Our first library 
     

The Strange Tale of the Island Astray
or, a Reckoning of Relations



4. Wonderful day


 7. Amazing workmen    9. I have met Captain Nemo
10. Lack of proper facilities
11. Would rather have more cannons
12. Genius and daft




Magic In Any Language
or, the Absent Antecedent

1. Needlework was for naught
2. What a disaster!
3. Difficult adults
4. Worrying about the wrong thing
5. We might as well never unpack


The Mystery of the Dying Clockwork
or, Wails Within Wheels
1. Every bride should know
2. One step away from madness
3. Blowing himself up
4. To improve their fate
5. I just need enough time
6. Design is clearly flawed
7. The most dreadful thing
8. Alive, barely
9. Less than expected
10. Forever, subjectively
11. Beastly climate
12. Global Criminal Conspiracy

The Caroler's Riddle
or, A Phantasmagoria in Four-Part Disharmony
1. This weather is not natural
2. Too tired
3. Wilhelmina's Christmas list
4. A hornet's nest



Proof Contrapositive, or Murder in Allegory and Algorithm
1. A poorly executed murder
2. Wagging their tongues


Mightier Than the Sword, or the Conundrum of the Kindest Cut
1. Worse than I feared
2. Angry and mad and crying


Giggleswick, or The Bridge on the River Ribble
1. I do hope the presentation goes well



The Importance of Being Atlas
1. How Formorian blood entered the Ua Flaithbertach bloodline 2. London knows we are back
3. Saw a unicorn
4. Mr O'Grady is ill
5. We recovered everyone
6. Not too ghastly



Return to Menu

This page copyright 2001-2010 by Gene Breshears. All Rights Reserv
Sivan's Talking Watch, the mechanism and phonograph disc published in De Natur page 32, 1895, which puts it well into the public domain.