A Chronological Listing of the
Johnny Ludlow Stories

Compiled by Michael Flowers ©2001-2006

Title

First Publication

Category

1.

Shaving the Ponies' Tails (0)

January 1868

Childish prank

2.

Losing Lena (1)

February 1868

Crime - child abduction

3.

Finding Both of Them (1)

March 1868

Crime - abductor's trial

4.

Watching on St. Mark's Eve (5)

April 1868

Ghost-watching

5.

Sanker's Visit (5)

May 1868

Crime - theft/schoolboys

6.

Roger Monk (5)

July 1868

Crime - plant poisoning

7.

A Hunt by Moonlight (1)

August 1868

Crime - theft/schoolboys

8.

Major Parrifer (1)

September 1868

Crime - social injustice

9.

Coming Home to Him (1)

October 1868

Social injustice

10.

Reality or Delusion? (1)

December 1868

Ghosts/Love triangle

11.

Lease, the Pointsman (1)

January 1869

Railway accident

12.

Going through the Tunnel (1)

February 1869

Crime - theft

13.

The Beginning of the End (1)

March 1869

Romance

14.

"Jerry's Gazette" (1)

April 1869

Financial sharp practice

15.

Crabb Ravine (3)

May 1869

Crime - blackmail/prank

16.

Tod's Repentance (3)

June 1869

Continuation of 15

17.

Jellico and His Pack (3)

August 1869

Working-class wives in debt

18.

Sophie Chalk (1)

September 1869

Crime - theft

19.

At Miss Deveen's (1)

October 1869

Theft - unresolved

20.

The Game Finished (1)

November 1869

Theft - detected

21.

David Garth's Night-Watch (1)

December 1869

Child cruelty (10's sequel)

22.

Robert Ashton's Wedding-Day (2)

January 1870

Missing groom found

23.

Hardly Worth Telling (2)

February 1870

Fallen woman

24.

Lost in the Post (2)

March 1870

Crime - theft

25.

Dick Mitchel (1)

April 1870

Child farm labour

26.

A Life of Trouble (2)

May 1870

Crime - theft (sequel to 24)

27.

A Tale of Sin (2)

July - October 1870

Fallen woman/illegitimacy

28.

Wolfe Barrington's Taming (1)

December 1870

Schoolboy bullying

29.

David Garth's Ghost (1)

January 1871

Apparent haunting

30.

Seeing Life (1)

February 1871

Gambling debts

31.

The Mystery of Jessy Page (3)

March 1871

Young woman disappears

32.

Coming Home to Die (3)

April 1871

Fallen woman

33.

Bursting Up (1)

June 1871

Bankrupcy/fraud

34.

Getting Away (1)

July 1871

Fraudulent bankers escape

35.

Over the Water (1)

August 1871

Bankers spotted in France

36.

Our Strike (1)

November 1871

Strike hardship

37.

Going to the Mop (1)

December 1871

Servant's romance

38.

At Whitney Hall (1)

January 1872

Religious - child's death

39.

Breaking Down (1)

March 1872

Overworked clerk's rural visit

40.

Aunt Dean (1)

May 1872

Romance - interfering aunt

41.

A Day of Pleasure (2)

September 1872

Schoolboy's death

42.

The Final Upshot (2)

October 1872

Brother's guilty conscience

43.

Our First Term at Oxford (5)

January 1873

Gambling debts/social

44.

A Crisis in His Life (5)

February 1873

attractions/reformation

45.

A Great Mystery (3)

April 1873

Theft/somnambulism

46.

Janet Carey (3)

May 1873

Social snobbery

47.

Dr. Knox (3)

July 1873

Romance

48.

Fred Temple's Warning (0)

November 1873

Ancestral ghost

49.

Mrs. Todhetley's Earrings (2)

December 1873

Crime/theft

50.

Selina Radcliffe's Home (4)

January 1874

Marriage - large age-gap

51.

Pritchley's Farm (4)

February 1874

Alcoholism/lunacy

52.

The Cries in the Trees (4)

March 1874

Haunted house/prison?

53.

Sandstone Torr (4)

April 1874

Prisoner released

54.

Hester Reed's Pills (2)

August 1874

Poisoning of babies

55.

Abel Crew (2)

September 1874

Herbalist cleared

56.

The Other Earring (2)

December 1874

Theft in 49 solved

57.

Charles Van Rheyn (2)

January 1875

Schoolboy bullying/death

58.

Margaret Rymer (2)

February 1875

Thief reformed/romance

59.

The Key of the Church (2)

April 1875

Crime - suspected murder

60.

The Syllabub Feast (2)

May 1875

Suspected murderer cleared

61.

Chandler & Chandler (4)

September - October 1875

Cheated from inheritance

62.

Seen in the Moonlight (2)

December 1875

Ghost (sequel to 48)

63.

Rose Lodge (2)

January 1876

Crime - property swindle

64.

The Angels' Music (3)

February 1876

Timid girl nearly dies

65.

Ketira the Gypsy (4)

March - April 1876

Fallen woman/gypsy curse

66.

Anne (2)

October - December 1876

Attempted bigamy/romance

67.

The Mystery at Number Seven (6)

January 1877

Crime - servant murdered

68.

Owen, the Milkman (6)

February 1877

Murderer becomes insane

69.

Helen Whitney's Wedding (3)

March 1877

Romance - fortune-hunter

70.

Helen's Curate (3)

April 1877

Romance thwarted

71.

A Day in Briar Wood (3)

August 1877

Crime - shooting

72.

Lee, the Letter-Man (3)

December 1877

Rural postman's story

73.

Caromel's Farm (3)

January 1878

Rural marriage/emigration

74.

Charlotte and Charlotte (3)

February 1878

Bigamy/ghost

75.

The Last of the Caromels (3)

March 1878

Bigamist shammed death

76.

Lady Jenkins (3)

January - April 1879

Poisoning/fraud

77.

The Curate of St. Matthew's (4)

November 1879

Eligible curate creates stir

78.

The Rector of St. Matthew's (4)

December 1879

but is married and promoted

79.

Verena Fontaine's Rebellion (4)

January - May 1880

Thwarted romance/murder

80.

The Story of Dorothy Grape (3)

January - February 1881

Bigamy - ruins woman's life

81.

Mrs. Cramp's Tenant (4)

December 1881

Wife hides from husband

82.

A Mystery (4)

January - March 1882

Disappearance/murder?

83.

The Ebony Box (4)

January - March 1883

Suspected theft

84.

A Curious Experience (4)

November 1883

Ghost story

85.

Roger Bevere (4)

I. Mr. Brandon's Skeleton

January 1884

Young medical student

II. The Bell-and-the Clapper

February 1884

marries a fallen woman

III. Roger's Skeleton

March 1884

and lives in fear of discovery

86.

Caramel Cottage (6)

I. The Barrister's Visit

January 1885

Romance terminated by

II. Disappeared

February 1885

possible murder but

III. Under the Summer Apple Tree

March 1885

happily resolved

87.

A Tragedy (6)

January - April 1886

Crime - theft and suicide

88.

In Later Years (6)

December 1887

Woman fakes drowning

89.

Featherston's Story (5)

January - June 1889

Marriage/murder for money

90.

The Silent Chimes (6)

January - June 1891

Uncanny curse/bigamy?