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Title page COPYRIGHT The Kai Lung Books THE WALLET OF KAI LUNG (1900)

CONTENTS THE TRANSMUTATION OF LING THE STORY OF YUNG CHANG THE PROBATION OF SEN HENG THE EXPERIMENT OF THE MANDARIN CHAN HUNG THE CONFESSION OF KAI LUNG THE VENGEANCE OF TUNG FEL THE CAREER OF THE CHARITABLE QUEN-KI-TONG THE VISION OF YIN, THE SON OF YAT HUANG THE ILL-REGULATED DESTINY OF KIN YEN, THE PICTURE-MAKER

KAI LUNG’S GOLDEN HOURS (1922)

CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII

KAI LUNG UNROLLS HIS MAT (1928)

CONTENTS PART I. - THE PROTECTING ANCESTORS CHAPTER I. The Malignity of the Depraved Ming-shu Rears Its Offensive Head CHAPTER II. The Difficult Progression of the Virtuous Kai Lung Assumes a Concrete Form CHAPTER III. The Further Continuance of Kai Lung’s Quest and His Opportune Encounter with an Outcast Band, All Ignorant Of The Classical Examples of the Past CHAPTER IV. At the Extremity of His Resource, the Continent Kai Lung Encounters One Who Leads the Unaffected Life How There Fell to Him the Leadership of the Fraternity of Thieves within I-kang Showing How Slight a Matter Went Hand in Hand with Tong So’s Destiny His meeting with Fan Chin and the Manner of His Many-Sided Qualities In Which He Becomes Both Virtuous and Esteemed CHAPTER V. The Meeting by the Way with the Warrior of Chi-U and What Emerged Therefrom CHAPTER VI. The Ambiguous Face Upon the One Found in a Wood and the Effete Ming-shu’s Dilemma CHAPTER VII. The Concave-Witted Li-Loe’s Insatiable Craving Serves a Meritorious End and Two (Who Shall Be Nameless) Are Led Toward a Snare CHAPTER VIII. In Which the Position of the Estimable Kai Lung Is Such That He Must Either Go Up or Down CHAPTER IX. Wherein the Footsteps of the Two Who Have Induced These Printed Leaves Assume a Homeward Bend PART II. - THE GREAT SKY LANTERN CHAPTER X. How Kai Lung Sought to Discourage One Who Did Not Gain His Approbation PART III. - THE BRINGER OF GOOD NEWS CHAPTER XI. Whereby the Angle at Which Events Present Themselves May Be Varied The Manner of His Setting Forth, His Encounter by the Way, and the Nature of His Reception at Wang Tae’s Hostile Door The Influence of the Wise Philosopher Ah-Yew and the Inspired Assurance of His Parting Forecast His Visit to the Soothsayer Who Dwelt Beneath the Tower of Ya, and the Incoming of the Two Maidens Whereby the Destinies Become Involved The Offensive Behaviour of Shang, Usurpatory King of Tsun, and the Various Influences under Which Ching-kwei Resolved to Menace Him Wang Tae’s Just Tribute to the Prescience of Ah-Yew, and the Conference of the Cedar Grove, Wherein Ching-Kwei Learned How Shen Che Was Scheming toward a Throne The Standard of the “Restoring Ying” Being Raised, Ching-kwei Is Hailed as Rightful Lord of Tsun, the Capital is Besieged and an Unworthy Dissension Thereat Engendered The Nature of the Stratagem Discovered to Ching-kwei, and the Measure of its Success. His meeting with One Whom He Had Thought to Be Queen of Tsun and the Rearrangement of the Destinies That Then Ensued. His Return and the Greetings Passed

THE MOON OF MUCH GLADNESS

CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII

KAI LUNG BENEATH THE MULBERRY TREE (1940)

CONTENTS THE STORY OF PRINCE YING, VIRTUOUS MEI, AND THE PURSUIT OF WORTHINESS THE THREE RECORDED JUDGMENTS OF PRINCE YING, FROM THE INSCRIBED SCROLL OF MOU TAO, THE BEGGAR THE IGNOBLE ALLIANCE OF LIN T’SING WITH THE OUTLAW FANG WANG, AND HOW IT AFFECTED THE DESTINIES THE STORY OF YIN HO, HOA-MI, AND THE MAGICIAN THE STORY OF TON HI, PRECIOUS GEM AND THE INCONSPICUOUS ELEPHANT THE STORY OF SAM-TSO, THE FAMILY CALLED WONG AND THE WILLING BUFFALO THE STORY OF SHO CHI, THE NO-LONGER MERCHANT NG HON. AND THE DOCILE LINNETS THE STORY OF THE POET LAO PING, CHUN SHIN’S DAUGHTER FA, AND THE FIGHTING CRICKETS

MISCELLANEOUS KAI LUNG STORIES

CONTENTS LAM-HOO AND THE REWARD OF MERIT CHUNG PUN AND THE MIRACULOUS PEACOCKS YUEN YANG AND THE EMPTY LO-CHEE CRATE SING TSUNG AND THE EXPONENT OF DARK MAGIC KWEY CHAO AND THE GRATEFUL SONG BIRD LI PAO, LUCKY STAR AND THE INTRUDING STRANGER

The Max Carrados Books MAX CARRADOS (1914)

CONTENTS THE COIN OF DIONYSIUS THE KNIGHT’S CROSS SIGNAL PROBLEM THE TRAGEDY AT BROOKBEND COTTAGE THE CLEVER MRS STRAITHWAITE THE LAST EXPLOIT OF HARRY THE ACTOR THE TILLING SHAW MYSTERY THE COMEDY AT FOUNTAIN COTTAGE THE GAME PLAYED IN THE DARK

THE EYES OF MAX CARRADOS (1923)

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE VIRGINIOLA FRAUD THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MARIE SEVERE THE SECRET OF DUNSTAN’S TOWER THE MYSTERY OF THE POISONED DISH OF MUSHROOMS THE GHOST AT MASSINGHAM MANSIONS THE MISSING ACTRESS SENSATION THE INGENIOUS MR. SPINOLA THE KINGSMOUTH SPY CASE THE EASTERN MYSTERY

MAX CARRADOS MYSTERIES (1927)

CONTENTS THE SECRET OF HEADLAM HEIGHT THE MYSTERY OF THE VANISHED PETITION CROWN THE HOLLOWAY FLAT TRAGEDY THE CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE TWO LEFT SHOES THE INGENIOUS MIND OF MR RIGBY LACKSOME THE CRIME AT THE HOUSE IN CULVER STREET THE STRANGE CASE OF CYRIL BYCOURT THE MISSING WITNESS SENSATION

THE BRAVO OF LONDON (1934)

CONTENTS THE ROAD TO TAPSFIELD JOOLBY DOES A LITTLE BUSINESS MR. BRONSKY HAS MISGIVINGS CORA LARCH IS OFFERED A GOOD SITUATION THE MEETING AT ELEVEN TILEHURST FAILS TO KEEP AN APPOINTMENT DR. OLIVANT ESTABLISHES HIS BONA FIDES MAX CARRADOS BECOMES INTERESTED IN TRIFLES IN WHICH THE ASSURANCE OF THE EYE DECEIVES THE MIND NIPPER CONTRIBUTES TO THE PROBLEM A MINE IS COUNTERMINED THE STAGE IS SET NORA TELLS THE TALE AND CARRADOS SUPPLIES THE MUSIC A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS INTO THE UNKNOWN THE MAN AT THE OTHER END LAST LAUGHTER

Other Fiction THE MIRROR OF KONG HO (1905)

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION LETTER I LETTER II LETTER III LETTER IV LETTER V LETTER VI LETTER VII LETTER VIII LETTER IX LETTER X LETTER XI LETTER XII LETTER XIII LETTER XIV

THE SECRET OF THE LEAGUE (1907)

THE SPECIMEN CASE (1924)

CONTENTS PREFACE Ming Tseuen and the Emergency The Delicate Case of Mlle.Celestine Bon The Dead March A Very Black Business The Bunch of Violets Revolution Smothered in Corpses Fate and a Family Council Lucretia and the Horse-Doctor The War Hawks The Great Hockington Find Hautepierre’s Star The Goose and the Golden Egg The Making of Marianna Bobbie and Poetic Justice The Heart of the Pagan Once in a Blue Moon The Marquise Ring The “Dragon’ of Swafton The Dream of William Elgood From a London Balcony

A LITTLE FLUTTER (1930)

The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Delphi Classics Catalogue

Series Contents Alphabetical List of Titles

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