"Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture" (Thorpe Hazell) "How the Bank Was Saved" (Thorpe Hazell) "The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box" (Thorpe Hazell) "How the Bishop Kept His Appointment" (Thorpe Hazell) "The Adventure of the Pilot Engine'" (Thorpe Hazell) "The Stolen Necklace" (Thorpe Hazell) "The Mystery of the Boat Express" "How the Express Was Saved" "A Case of Signaling" '"Winning the Race" "The Strikers" "The Ruse That Succeeded" "A Perilous Ride" "The Slip Coach Mystery" "In the Rockhurst Tunnel" "The Convict's Revenge" "A Warning in Red" "A Jump for Freedom" "Special Working Instructions" "Pierre Cournet's Last Run" "Between Two Fires" "The Triumph of Seth P. Tucker" "A Policy of Silence" "In a Tight Fix" "The Romance of the 'Southern Queen" The Canon in Residence (1904) The Reverend John Smith is a conventional cleric, who learns on holiday he has been promoted to be Canon in Residence of Frattenbury Cathedral. While staying at a hotel he meets a fellow Englishman, who tells him the clergy are too divorced from reality. This stranger drugs Mr Smith and takes his clerical clothing, leaving in return his garish clothing, which Mr Smith is forced to wear for the rest of his holiday in St Moritz. However, because of this, he learns a great deal that the dog collar would have prevented. Meanwhile, the stranger adopts Smith's name and goes off gambling and quaffing vast quantities of champagne in Monte Carlo, to the horror of an Englishwoman there who writes to her friends in Frattenbury about him. On returning to Frattenbury, Canon Smith champions the cause of reform, in particular improvements to slum housing to the anger of his church colleagues and the city magnates, who spread rumours of his supposed time in Monte Carlo. He sends a £20 note he found in the stranger's jacket to someone threatened with bankruptcy. Unfortunately this turned out to be stolen in a bank robbery, and Canon Smith is embarrassed by having to admit in court how he came by the note to clear the accused. All comes right when his friend Jane Rutland receives another letter about the "clergyman" and she is able to tip off the police to get him arrested. Canon Smith goes to the bank robber in the cells to thank him for opening his eyes to others' points of view, and shows his forgiveness. The novel ends with his engagement to Jane Rutland. The book