The Riddle of the SandsEach volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by Ned Halley. |
Contents
Preface | 11 |
The Letter | 15 |
The Dulcibella | 23 |
Davies | 39 |
Retrospect | 51 |
Wanted a North Wind | 61 |
Schlei Fiord | 70 |
The Missing Page | 79 |
Clearing the Air | 198 |
Imperial Escort | 211 |
The Rubicon | 218 |
The Little Drab Book | 234 |
Blindfold to Memmert | 247 |
The Quartette | 267 |
A Change of Tactics | 281 |
Finesse | 297 |
The Theory | 95 |
I Sign Articles | 109 |
His Chance | 120 |
The Pathfinders | 130 |
My Initiation | 140 |
The Meaning of our Work | 153 |
The First Might in the Islands | 160 |
Bensersiel | 172 |
Commander von Bruning | 181 |
I Double Back | 315 |
The Seven Siels | 329 |
The Luck of the Stowaway | 343 |
We Achieve our Double Aim | 361 |
Epilogue | 373 |
Afterword | 385 |
Further Reading | 396 |
Biography | 397 |
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