CONTENTS
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Chapter One: A Felonious Father Christmas
Chapter Two: The Allerthorpes of Fellscar Keep
Chapter Three: The Black Thurrick
Chapter Four: An Archetypal Petrarchan Sonnet
Chapter Six: Dinnertime Purdah
Chapter Seven: A Marvellous Medium
Chapter Eight: The Monolith In the Glade
Chapter Nine: Shadrach Allerthorpe’S Brief But Most Curious Narrative
Chapter Eleven: An Additional Benefit of Domestic Retainers
Chapter Twelve: The Smell Of Melancholy
Chapter Thirteen: The Gathering of the Clan
Chapter Fourteen: My Long Night of Penance
Chapter Fifteen: Leaping to a Conclusion
Chapter Seventeen: A Deadly Pas De Deux
Chapter Eighteen: Diamonds Before Swine
Chapter Nineteen: A Good Arm And A Good Eye
Chapter Twenty: Lord Of Misrule
Chapter Twenty-One: The Devil Worshipper and The Hell Stone
Chapter Twenty-Two: Mrs Trebend’S Terror
Chapter Twenty-Three: Departure For London
Chapter Twenty-Four: A Costly Comradeship
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Ideal Murder Weapon
Chapter Twenty-Six: A Frozen Purgatory
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Fragile Ice
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Lesser of two Evils
Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Greater of two Evils
Chapter Thirty: The Tragic History of the Trebends