The Adventure of the Second Wife

Contents

Part One: THE FIRST WIFE

Exhibit ???A???:??The Sultan???s Gaoler

Chapter 1: The Arrival of Leyla Arslan

Chapter 2: The Mystery

Chapter 3: My Legacy to Anandita

Chapter 4: 2WIF

Chapter 5: I Buy a Ticket

Chapter 6: The Honeymooners

Chapter 7: More Toby than Mycroft

Chapter 8: Uncle Fred

Chapter 9: Esta??furullah

Exhibit ???B???: ???The Adventure of the Second Wife???

The introduction attributed??to A. Conan Doyle

Part Two: ELLE

Chapter 10: Grandfather Esad

Chapter 11: The Mystery of the Centre Forward

Chapter 12: The Death of Elle

Chapter 13: The Damat

Chapter 14: The Mosque of the Holy Mantle

Chapter 15: The Capricious Bladder of Adile????????Sultan

Chapter 16: Leyla Pays for Lunch??

Part Three: CONSTANTINOPLE IN LONDON

Chapter 17: The Adventure of the??Polka-Dotted Cummerbund

Chapter 18: The Theatre of Life??

Chapter 19: Pumpkin Curry

Chapter 20: Royal Blood

Part Four: ???The power of complexity and the complexity of power???

Chapter 21: The Tale of the Sultan???s Gaoler??

Chapter 22: The Purloined Letter

Chapter 23: Our Grandfathers Meet

Chapter 24: An Early Morning in the Abode of Felicity

Chapter 25: ???The Tragedy of Proud Love???

Part Five: THE SECOND WIFE

Chapter 26: The Bushwacking Sentries of Bhurtee??

Chapter 27: The Deadliest Sin

Chapter 28: The Game Was Afoot

Chapter 29: The Earth Moves

Part Six: ???AND YET I THINK OF YOU???

Chapter 30: A Ghost

Chapter 31: The Loreley

Chapter 32: The Rescue from the Inferno

Chapter 33: Aqua Tofana

Chapter 34: The Smile

Chapter 35: The Rotten Molar

Chapter 36: The Bearers of the Sultan???s Commission

Chapter 37: An Incident Hard to Reconcile with the Settled Order of Nature

Chapter 38: A Final Destination

Chapter 39: Snake

Chapter 40:??The (Final) Tale of the Sultan???s Gaoler??

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Andrew Finkel has been a journalist based in Turkey since 1989, and has corresponded for a variety of print and broadcast media including??The Daily Telegraph,??The Times,??The Economist,??TIME,??The Art Newspaper??and CNN. More unusually, he has worked in the Turkish language press both in the newsroom and as a featured columnist; he is food critic and contributing editor for Istanbul???s Cornucopia magazine. His free-lance articles and editorials have appeared in a large number of publications including??The Washington Post,??The Guardian, the??Observer,??Foreign Affairs,??The Financial Times,??Le Monde Diplomatique??and in the Latitudes column of the??New York Times.

He is also a founding member of P24, an Istanbul-based NGO that supports independent journalism. His handbook,??Turkey, What Everyone Needs to Know??is published by Oxford University Press and a novel,??The Adventure of the Second Wife??is published by Even Keel.