Of the many thousands of utterly ordinary-looking individuals who journeyed into the city from various suburban retreats every workday morning Limmis was, by a long way, the most ordinary and least likely to attract attention. He was the sort of young man whom no one would have ever troubled to look at twice. If you happened to look at Limmis once you knew—if you really happened to think about the thing at all—that you could see his like a hundred times in the next half mile of crowded street. He was inconspicuous, colourless, common—as common as peas or potatoes...

I Against Time

II The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress

III The Fifteenth-Century Crozier

IV The Yellow Dog

V Room 53

VI The Secret of the Barbican

VII The Silhouette

VIII Blind Gap Moor

IX St. Morkil’s Isle

X Extra-Judicial

XI The Second Capsule

XII The Way to Jericho

XIII Patent No. 33

XIV The Selchester Missal

XV The Murder in the Mayor’s Parlour