91.   The story begins when the aptly named Allworthy discovers a baby left in his bed and decides to raise him.

92.   The story begins with a geeky postgraduate student named Phineas G. Nanson deciding to abandon his career as a postmodern literary theorist.

93.   The story begins with a journalistic battle waged over the actions of Dixon Jones.

94.   The story begins with a young banker, Teddy, visiting a wealthy socialite, Iris, who has taken refuge in Belgium from the Roaring American Twenties.

95.   The story begins with good friends Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather on the brink of fulfilling their dreams by opening a catering business in Dublin.

96.   The story begins with the introduction of Sarah, a self-possessed newcomer to a Catholic high school who is able to balance a pencil on its tip by telekinesis.

97.   The story begins with two portentous events.

98.   The story begins, as many mystery stories do, with a death, the unexplained apparent suicide of a wealthy German businessman from Munich named Dieter Frisch.

99.   The story of Sinbad begins with the wicked punished and honesty established in power.

100.   The story begins at the Whitney in the turn-of-the-century Gilded Age, when a prosperous nation turned its face toward Europe.