CHAPTER ONE
The Protagonists
CHAPTER TWO
Bunchy
CHAPTER THREE
Sequence to a Cocktail-party
CHAPTER FOUR
Blackmail to Music
CHAPTER FIVE
Unqualified Success
CHAPTER SIX
Bunchy Goes Back to the Yard
CHAPTER SEVEN
Stop Press News
CHAPTER EIGHT
Troy and Alleyn
CHAPTER NINE
Report from Mr Fox
CHAPTER TEN
Donald
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Captain Withers at Home
CHAPTER TWELVE
Report from a Waiter
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Dimitri Cuts His Fingers
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Davidson Digresses
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Simple Soldier-man
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Lady Carrados Looks Back
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The Element of Youth
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Predicament of a Secretary
CHAPTER NINETEEN
The General
CHAPTER TWENTY
Rose Birnbaum
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Statement by Lucy Lorrimer
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Night Club
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Donald on Wits
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
The Dance is Wound Up
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Benefit of Clergy
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Alleyn Plots a Dénouement
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Interlude for Love
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Alleyn Marshals the Protagonists
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
Climax
CHAPTER THIRTY
Confessions from Troy
Epilogue