logoThe Big Six
CHARACTERS D.'s (Dot, Dick Callum)
Tom Dudgeon
Death & Glories (Joe, Bill, Pete)
George Owden
Mr Tedder
owner of the Cachalot
minor characters: Dr & Mrs (Ella) Dudgeon, Mr Farland, Jim Woodall, Simon, Admiral (Mrs Barrable), Ralph Strakey, Harry Bangate the eel man, the mums of the Death & Glories
LOCATION Norfolk Broads
TIME September 1932 (plus the last chapter takes place on a Saturday morning in late February 1933)
BOATS Titmouse, Death & Glory, Sir Garnet, Cachalot, various boats cast off


TIMELINE

(numbers are days,
names are chapter titles)

1

 Out of the Dentist's Window

2

 First Sign of Trouble, Eel Sett at Night

3

 Misleading Appearances, Darkening Clouds

4

 Tow Out of Trouble

5

 The World's Whopper, At the Roaring Donkey, Money to Burn

6

 Breakfast at Dr Dudgeon's, "We Got to Emigrate"

7

 Worse and Worse, Two Ways of Looking at the Same Thing, The First Clue, Rival Detectives

8

 Spreading the Net, News From the Outposts, A Scrap of Flannel

9

 Unwanted Gift, Dunlop Tyres

10

 Morning Visitors, Another Coat of Paint, The Villain Leaves His Mark

11

 The Villain Leaves His Mark, Things Look Black, The Last Chance, A Kid For the Tiger, Setting the Trap, Blinding Falsh, Siege of the Death and Glory

12

 "All the Evidence We Got", In the Dark Room, The Legal Mind

Feb.

 What Happened to the Fish
NOTES Pete had the loose tooth; Death & Glory got a cabin over the summer; Port & Starboard are at school in Paris; Mrs Barrable took a bungalow in the village; Tom is several inches taller than the tallest of the Death & Glories, Tom wears trousers, not just short pants; Dick is described as a smallish boy; D.'s planning on being there until the end of the holidays and again at Easter

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