Table of Contents

Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

The House of Charles Swinter

Chapter One: The Crying Woman

Chapter Two: Charles’s Living Room

Chapter Three: Speak to Us of Beauty

Chapter Four: The Scene

Chapter Five: Before and After

Chapter Six: Susan Stands Up For Herself

Chapter Seven: The Two Waterloos

Chapter Eight: The Missing Person

Chapter Nine: Taxi

Chapter Ten: The Broker

Chapter Eleven: Noonie

Chapter Twelve: A Chance Encounter

Chapter Thirteen: The Great Farang

Chapter Fourteen: A Date to Remember

Chapter Fifteen: After the Ice Broke

Chapter Sixteen: Incoming

Chapter Seventeen: Reunion

Chapter Eighteen: The Science Show

Chapter Nineteen: The Welfare of the Equipment

Chapter Twenty: Deal

Chapter Twenty-One: The Dinner Party

Chapter Twenty-Two: The After Party

Chapter Twenty-Three: Noonie’s Misery

Chapter Twenty-Four: A Dubious Proposition

Chapter Twenty-Five: Edward’s Misery

Chapter Twenty-Six: Backtracking

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Congratulations

Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Missed Opportunity?

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Unlucky With Women

Chapter Thirty: A Sleepless Night

Chapter Thirty-One: The Christening

Chapter Thirty-Two: Worried

Chapter Thirty-Three: Shoetime

Chapter Thirty-Four: Comparing Notes

Chapter Thirty-Five: Into the Great Wide Open

Chapter Thirty-Six: Uninvited but not Unwelcome

Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Truth Will Set You Free ... Or Not.

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Scenes From a Gothic Mad House

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Clandestine Stuff

Chapter Forty: Several New Discoveries

Chapter Forty-One: The Food of Love

Chapter Forty-Two: Jealousy and Suspicion and Guilt

Chapter Forty-Three: Time to Split

Chapter Forty-Four: The Gay Bouquet

Chapter Forty-Five: Fancy Flees Before the Wind

Chapter Forty-Six: About a Brick

Chapter Forty-Seven: Aftermath

Chapter Forty-Eight: The Struggle Not to Become Mrs Thanongsak

Chapter Forty-Nine: Boxing Day

Chapter Fifty: Last Moments

Chapter Fifty-One: To Phuket and Back

Chapter Fifty-Two: In the Slammer

Chapter Fifty-Three: What Thanongsak Did Next

Chapter Fifty-Four: Kwan

Chapter Fifty-Five: Gone

Chapter Fifty-Six: The Will to Inertia

Chapter Fifty-Seven: Six Months

Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Hunt for Noonie

Chapter Fifty-Nine: J’ai Perdu Mon Eurydice

Chapter Sixty: Prakong Yanphaisarn Comes Clean

Chapter Sixty-One: The Uses of Enchantment

Chapter Sixty-Two: End of an Adventure

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