Editor's preface
PRELUDE: AUTHOR'S NOTE
BOOK ONE: APPRENTICESHIP
ONE: Two shabby figures
TWO: The sorcerer'sapprentice
THREE: Mistress of the hounds
FOUR: A case of my own
BOOK TWO: INTERNSHIP
FIVE: The vagrantgipsy life
SIX: A child gone from her bed
SEVEN: Words with Miss Simpson
BOOK THREE: PARTNERSHIP
EIGHT: We have a case
NINE: The game, afoot
TEN: The problem of the empty house
ELEVEN: Another problem, the mutilated four-wheeler
TWELVE: Flight
EXCURSUS: A gathering of strength
THIRTEEN: Umbilicus mundi
BOOK FOUR: MASTERY
FOURTEEN: The act begins
FIFTEEN: Separation trial
SIXTEEN: The daughter of the voice
SEVENTEEN: Forces joined
EIGHTEEN: Battle royal
POSTLUDE: Putting off the armour
NINETEEN: Return home
