The Black Tulip

I: A Grateful People

II: The Two Brothers

III: The Pupil of John de Witt

IV: The Murderers

V: The Tulip-Fancier and His Neighbour

VI: The Hatred of a Tulip-Fancier

VII: The Happy Man Makes Acquaintance with Misfortune

VIII: An Invasion

IX: The Family Cell

X: The Jailer’s Daughter

XI: Cornelius van Baerle’s Will

XII: The Execution

XIII: What Was Going on All This Time in the Mind of One of the Spectators

XIV: The Pigeons of Dort

XV: The Little Grated Window

XVI: Master and Pupil

XVII: The First Bulb

XVIII: Rosa’s Lover

XIX: The Maid and the Flower

XX: The Events Which Took Place During Those Eight Days

XXI: The Second Bulb

XXII: The Opening of the Flower

XXIII: The Rival

XXIV: The Black Tulip Changes Masters

XXV: The President van Systens

XXVI: A Member of the Horticultural Society

XXVII: The Third Bulb

XXVIII: The Hymn of the Flowers

XXIX: In Which Van Baerle, Before Leaving Loewestein, Settles Accounts with Gryphus

XXX: Wherein the Reader Begins to Guess the Kind of Execution That Was Awaiting Van Baerle

XXXI: Haarlem

XXXII: A Last Request

XXXIII: Conclusion