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mm-long-storytelling-bench

id string	question_type string	question string	answers list	answer_text string	answer_format string	hops int64	gold_story_id string	document_ids list	n_documents int64	gold_position int64	context_tokens int64	supporting_quotes list	separation float64	language string	status string	checkpoint string
retr-0001	retrieval	One nonfiction collection of essays on outbreaks of religious mania and other strange historical episodes recounts how a self-appointed peasant holy woman in a small Alpine hamlet drove her devoted household to batter one of her own sisters to death and then had herself nailed to a makeshift cross, promising to rise ag...	[ "a pinch of snuff" ]	a pinch of snuff	string	1	baringgould_freaks_fanaticism	[ "baringgould_freaks_fanaticism", "pemberton_jewel_mysteries" ]	2	0	230,490	[ "The hands and feet of the victim were nailed to the blocks of wood", "of his right hand was a pinch of snuff" ]	0.243	en	draft	k1
retr-0002	retrieval	A nonfiction collection of essays on fanaticism and strange events describes, among its cases, an alleged plot to murder an exiled royal family sheltering abroad by serving them root vegetables that had been hollowed out and packed with poison. In another essay in the same book, an investigator works out the exact dist...	[ "3487 paces" ]	3487 paces	string	1	baringgould_freaks_fanaticism	[ "baringgould_freaks_fanaticism", "shiel_isle_lies" ]	2	0	250,468	[ "three parsnips, that had been scooped out and filled with", "3487 paces, which would take a man about 25 minutes" ]	0.041	en	draft	k1
retr-0003	retrieval	In the book of linked adventures whose hero is a young English earl so wealthy, so shy of publicity, and so fond of swapping assumed names that in one episode he installs his own manservant in a rented country house as the gentleman of leisure while he himself poses as that gentleman's hired motor driver: at the very s...	[ "Thirty-seven" ]	Thirty-seven	string	1	barr_lord_stranleigh	[ "barr_prince_good", "barr_lord_stranleigh" ]	2	1	163,634	[ "\"How many new suits have you provided for me?\"\n\n\"Thirty-seven, my lord.\"" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0004	retrieval	In the book of linked episodes about a young Scottish monarch who keeps roaming his own realm passing himself off as a modest landholder, one adventure leaves him captive in a pirate's stronghold whose upper storey can only be reached by a movable floor raised on an enormous greased wooden spiral turned by a wheel driv...	[ "Fifty feet" ]	Fifty feet	string	1	barr_prince_good	[ "barr_lord_stranleigh", "barr_prince_good" ]	2	1	163,634	[ "It does not, if you will notice, go entirely to the top, but\nstops at that door, fifty feet from the rock, into which Peter is now\nentering." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0005	retrieval	One novel in this collection concerns a ruined wheat-grower on the Canadian plains who, facing foreclosure, accepts a fee to put on a stranger's fur coat and cap and ride that stranger's fast black horse toward the American line, purely so the mounted police will chase him while contraband liquor is run over a frozen r...	[ "Half a dollar (fifty cents)" ]	Half a dollar (fifty cents)	string	1	bindloss_impostor	[ "bindloss_intriguers", "bindloss_impostor" ]	2	1	213,989	[ "the half-dollar Witham had then in his pocket was required for other" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0006	retrieval	In the novel where a blunt, well-off elderly Englishwoman on a Canadian tour has taken up collecting live wild creatures of the smaller kind, which travel with her in hampers, and where one of these gets loose in a big-city hotel and is chased round the public room by staff and guests, an American on the road for a pai...	[ "About two dollars." ]	About two dollars.	string	1	bindloss_intriguers	[ "bindloss_impostor", "bindloss_intriguers" ]	2	1	213,988	[ "And I'm here in an expensive hotel,\nwhere I've made about two dollars' commission in three days." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0007	retrieval	One of these novels is narrated by a trader in pearls and shell from a small island north of Australia, who — while sailing a yacht he has hired on the English south coast — drags a drowning young nobleman out of the sea, and who is later chained by the neck to a wall in a foreign town and gets written appeals for help...	[ "Eighteenpence, on the 3rd of July, 1833." ]	Eighteenpence, on the 3rd of July, 1833.	string	1	boothby_bid	[ "boothby_bid", "boothby_marriage_esther" ]	2	0	194,723	[ "I paid eighteenpence for it on the\n3rd of July, 1833, in the shop of John Burns, Fleet Street, London." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0008	retrieval	In the late-Victorian South Seas novel in which a destitute Englishman well over six feet tall and his small, misshapen, hard-drinking companion swim a channel between two islands to reach a pearl-fishing station run by a young woman, and in which the tall man wins her by claiming an aristocratic identity he has invent...	[ "A little slip of paper bearing the words: \"Semper fidelis: Thank God, I can forgive. It is our fate. Good-bye.\"" ]	A little slip of paper bearing the words: "Semper fidelis: Thank God, I can forgive. It is our fate. Good-bye."	string	1	boothby_marriage_esther	[ "boothby_marriage_esther", "boothby_bid" ]	2	0	194,722	[ "a little slip of paper, on which was\nwritten these words: 'Semper fidelis: Thank God, I can forgive. It is\nour fate. Good-bye.'" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0009	retrieval	Among these books, one is presented as the written confession of a London painter who is secretly given a deadly sickness inside a colossal ancient burial structure in the desert, and who is then used, without his knowledge, to carry that sickness from one European city to the next. In that book: when the narrator at l...	[ "His gold watch and chain." ]	His gold watch and chain.	string	1	boothby_pharos	[ "boothby_pharos", "boothby_bid" ]	2	0	242,164	[ "So saying, I took from my pocket my gold watch and chain and handed them" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0010	retrieval	In the novel whose hero is an idle young Englishman living on a fortune his father built up from nothing out of a cheap household washing article, and who first meets his future wife when she slips off a fog-covered mountain path in Scandinavia and he gets her back to safety: the opening pages convert his yearly income...	[ "Three hundred and twenty-eight pounds, fifteen shillings and fourpence (£328 15s 4d) a day" ]	Three hundred and twenty-eight pounds, fifteen shillings and fourpence (£328 15s 4d) a day	string	1	boothby_red_rats	[ "boothby_red_rats", "boothby_bid" ]	2	0	222,145	[ "means ten thousand pounds a month, three hundred and twenty-eight\npounds, fifteen shillings and fourpence a day" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0011	retrieval	One of these books opens with a young heir crossing the water on his dying father's instructions, carrying back a packet of documents the old man had held in trust for a titled comrade of his campaigning days; committed to a duel at daybreak on his very first night ashore, and knowing not a soul in the country, he dres...	[ "The Martha Bixby" ]	The Martha Bixby	string	1	crane_oruddy_romance	[ "crane_oruddy_romance", "barr_prince_good" ]	2	0	215,337	[ "\"The 'Martha Bixby,' she was, out of Bristol for the West Indies, and" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0012	retrieval	Among these documents is a book of seven separate love stories by a single writer. In one of them a woman who survived a train smash lets the world believe she perished and hides herself away in an old English fishing port; in another, a celebrated defence advocate agrees to take on a hopeless criminal case only on the...	[ "A tall Madonna lily" ]	A tall Madonna lily	string	1	dell_odds_other	[ "dell_odds_other", "dell_top_world" ]	2	0	282,499	[ "to cut a tall Madonna lily from a sheaf that grew close to the path. At" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0013	retrieval	One of these novels follows a young Englishwoman who crosses the sea to a hot, drought-ridden colonial farming district to marry the sweetheart she has stayed faithful to for five years, mistakes his cousin for him on the station platform, and within days marries that cousin instead. In that book, she once opens her hu...	[ "A half-smoked cigarette - one of her own, which he had earlier taken from between her lips." ]	A half-smoked cigarette - one of her own, which he had earlier taken from between her lips.	string	1	dell_top_world	[ "dell_top_world", "dell_odds_other" ]	2	0	282,499	[ "cigarette--one of her own--that had been half-smoked." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0014	retrieval	Identify the book: a linked series of criminal investigations, all handled by one recurring imperial police agent, opening with a narrator who explains that he came to own the agent's private case papers because a wreck between two trains cost the man both legs and, a few weeks later, his life. In one of those investig...	[ "A pair of shoes each" ]	A pair of shoes each	string	1	donovan_chronicles_michael	[ "hocking_pomp_yesterday", "donovan_chronicles_michael" ]	2	1	267,145	[ "she stayed for three days; then she took her departure,\nbefore doing so presenting the three principal servants with a pair of\nshoes each." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0015	retrieval	One of these books opens with a derelict country mansion that has no lawful owner, into which a usurer moves secretly by night. On a scouting visit he finds a homeless boy in his early teens asleep in one of the upstairs rooms, and when he decides to hire him he makes the lad kiss and swear upon a small pocket volume o...	[ "From five to fifty per cent per annum" ]	From five to fifty per cent per annum	string	1	farjeon_miser_farebrother	[ "farjeon_miser_farebrother2", "farjeon_miser_farebrother" ]	2	1	133,837	[ "the printed text of which was the\ncalculation of interest upon ten pounds and upward for a day, for a\nweek, for a month, for a year, at from five to fifty per cent. per\nannum." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0016	retrieval	In the novel where a devoted former household servant, now a constable, swears to the colour of a dress worn by a woman he glimpsed among the trees on the night of a killing — testimony that helps convict an innocent young woman, and which is only overturned when it emerges that he cannot tell one hue from another — th...	[ "A silver chain and a large diamond ring." ]	A silver chain and a large diamond ring.	string	1	farjeon_miser_farebrother2	[ "farjeon_miser_farebrother2", "farjeon_miser_farebrother" ]	2	0	133,837	[ "'Wearing any jewellery?'--'A silver chain and a large diamond ring.'" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0017	retrieval	One novel in the collection concerns a small northern English market town whose mayor and whose chief municipal finance official are partners in a builders' and contractors' yard, both of them living under assumed surnames after quietly serving two years' imprisonment thirty years earlier for making away with the funds...	[ "Two pounds twelve shillings and sixpence per week (£2 12s 6d)" ]	Two pounds twelve shillings and sixpence per week (£2 12s 6d)	string	1	fletcher_borough_treasurer	[ "fletcher_days_drake", "fletcher_borough_treasurer" ]	2	1	160,295	[ "sum of two pounds twelve shillings and sixpence per week." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0018	retrieval	In the first-person Elizabethan memoir whose elderly narrator, a Yorkshire squire, recounts how an envious cousin bribed a foreign trading captain to drug him aboard ship at a small northern fishing port and carry him across the Atlantic, so that he was tried by a church tribunal in the New World and afterwards chained...	[ "A cup of wine with a piece of bread fried in honey" ]	A cup of wine with a piece of bread fried in honey	string	1	fletcher_days_drake	[ "fletcher_borough_treasurer", "fletcher_days_drake" ]	2	1	160,296	[ "they\ngave us breakfast, which was a cup of wine with a piece of bread fried\nin honey" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0019	retrieval	In the mystery novel where the newly elected head of a small, intensely tradition-bound old English town is found dead at his desk in his own private official room inside the town's fortress-like council building, and where his cousin — a London newspaperman who inherits everything he owned — afterwards buys a house in...	[ "An old Semmingford machine, number 32,587." ]	An old Semmingford machine, number 32,587.	string	1	fletcher_mayor	[ "fletcher_mayor", "fletcher_borough_treasurer" ]	2	0	214,242	[ "Positive, sir; it's an old Semmingford machine, number 32,587." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0020	retrieval	In one of these novels a young doctor is turned out of his post one morning for pressing his employer's ward to marry him, and within the hour he is the first medical man to reach an elderly stranger who has just dropped to his death from a high opening in the wall of a great church — whereupon he goes through the dead...	[ "One shilling and sixpence (\"one-and-six\")" ]	One shilling and sixpence ("one-and-six")	string	1	fletcher_paradise	[ "fletcher_paradise", "fletcher_borough_treasurer" ]	2	0	218,146	[ "he'd picked it up from\na book-barrow in the street, somewhere in London, for one-and-six." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0021	retrieval	One novel in the collection centres on a shy, overgrown-boy of a bachelor with a comfortable private income who quits the capital after the woman he loved threw him over for another man, and who then, almost by accident, ends up rearing three entirely unrelated youngsters in a sprawling old country house — helped by a ...	[ "Seventeen shillings" ]	Seventeen shillings	string	1	gallon_jimmy_quixote	[ "gallon_tinman", "gallon_jimmy_quixote" ]	2	1	262,785	[ "that had been a mere matter of seventeen shillings; and this was the" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0022	retrieval	In the novel whose narrator is a reprieved murderer who, after twenty years locked up for striking down a man who had spoken filth about the woman he loved, is met at the prison gate by the very guardian who engineered the killing, and is then handed a brand-new surname borrowed from the metal-working trade he had lear...	[ "Henry Howard" ]	Henry Howard	string	1	gallon_tinman	[ "gallon_tinman", "gallon_jimmy_quixote" ]	2	0	262,785	[ "whose name is given as Henry Howard, is the sole survivor of the" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0023	retrieval	One of the supplied novels opens inside a rough gold-diggings drinking-house in the middle of a brawl, when the mail carrier walks in with a bundle under his coat that turns out to be a small child he found lying under her dead mother's shawl beside the road; the camp's professional card-player then settles who shall k...	[ "To the old hut in the Raven Claim, on Friday evening (one man alone was to bring it)." ]	To the old hut in the Raven Claim, on Friday evening (one man alone was to bring it).	string	1	garvice_just_girl	[ "garvice_only_one", "garvice_just_girl" ]	2	1	353,029	[ "muny ter the old hut in the Raven Claim on fridy evenin’, an’ the" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0024	retrieval	One novel in the collection turns on a dying miser's own handwritten last testament, which reveals that nearly his whole fortune belongs to a daughter nobody knew existed — a girl reared from the age of three as a woodcutter's child in a forest she had never once stepped outside of — and the paper is stolen at the deat...	[ "29" ]	29	number	1	garvice_only_one	[ "garvice_just_girl", "garvice_only_one" ]	2	1	353,029	[ "sermons in twenty-nine volumes, standing on the second shelf in the" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0025	retrieval	Consider the novel in which a grieving country landowner sits up through the entire night on each anniversary of the evening his son walked out after being falsely accused, and in which the man who manages his thoroughbred breeding stock spends the last night of December willing an aged mare not to drop her foal until ...	[ "Three guineas a week" ]	Three guineas a week	string	1	gould_runaways_new	[ "gould_settling_day", "gould_runaways_new" ]	2	1	151,506	[ "Would three guineas a week be too much, sir?" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0026	retrieval	Exactly one of these books is set on remote grazing country in colonial Australia and turns on a shunned station owner whose small son grows up into a winning jockey; the district's only medical man there is a warm-hearted tippler who once served at sea, writes verse that nobody wants to print, and is trailed everywher...	[ "A bullock; he said he had put it down in the third volume of his bad debts." ]	A bullock; he said he had put it down in the third volume of his bad debts.	string	1	gould_settling_day	[ "gould_settling_day", "gould_runaways_new" ]	2	0	151,506	[ "He owes me an account, and he wanted to know if I'd take a bullock in", "I have put it down in my third volume of bad debts" ]	0.002	en	draft	k1
retr-0027	retrieval	One of these books opens with a young man who has spent six years and every penny he owns on the problem of flight, and who finally watches his small working model rise and travel the length of his shabby rented room straight into the wind blowing through two open windows — then throws himself on the bed and weeps, bec...	[ "Ten sovereigns (ten pounds). He insists it is not charity or an advance but a purely commercial transaction — a moderate fee for the privilege of inspecting the invention." ]	Ten sovereigns (ten pounds). He insists it is not charity or an advance but a purely commercial transaction — a moderate fee for the privilege of inspecting the invention.	string	1	griffith_angel	[ "griffith_angel", "griffith_olga" ]	2	0	361,892	[ "sea-chest, Colston counted out ten sovereigns and laid them on the\ntable. Hearing the clink of the gold, Arnold looked up and said", "\"At present your only connection with it is a commercial one, and ten\npounds is a very moderate fee for the privilege of inspecting such an\ninvention as this." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0028	retrieval	One of these books closes with the earth passing through an ocean of fire thrown off by a blazing intruder that had drifted back in from beyond the sun's family of worlds, while a small chosen remnant of humanity rides out the catastrophe sealed inside a hollowed-out mountain under a deliberately flooded valley. In tha...	[ "Iron, gold, tellurium, chromium, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon (with smaller quantities of many other substances)." ]	Iron, gold, tellurium, chromium, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon (with smaller quantities of many other substances).	list	1	griffith_olga	[ "griffith_olga", "griffith_angel" ]	2	0	361,891	[ "The constituents of the incandescent nucleus are iron, gold,\n tellurium, chromium, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon, with smaller\n quantities of many other substances" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0029	retrieval	One of these books is a late-Victorian scientific romance in which a physician revives a royal youth who has lain in an artificially induced trance for more than three and a half centuries, so that the sleeper can rouse his enslaved descendants and unseal the buried hoards of his ancestors; that same physician is event...	[ "Twenty thousand soles (dollars of Peru), which was two thousand pounds in English money." ]	Twenty thousand soles (dollars of Peru), which was two thousand pounds in English money.	string	1	griffith_romance_golden	[ "griffith_angel", "griffith_romance_golden" ]	2	1	274,733	[ "o us but would only sell\nit, and the price was twenty thousand soles, or dollars of Peru, which\nwas two thousand pounds in English money.\n\n'" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0030	retrieval	One of the supplied novels tells of an elderly physicist who, after his own country's war ministry laughs off his discovery as a crank's daydream, lashes a sealed metal box holding the complete plans of his invention to his back and drops off a cross-channel steamer at midnight; the box is fished out of the sea by a pe...	[ "Ten coins, each a twenty-mark piece (together worth just ten pounds and a few pence in English money)." ]	Ten coins, each a twenty-mark piece (together worth just ten pounds and a few pence in English money).	string	1	griffith_world_masters	[ "griffith_world_masters", "griffith_angel" ]	2	0	309,718	[ "There were\nten twenty-mark pieces--just ten pounds and a few pence in English\nmoney." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0031	retrieval	In the novel whose hero is a ruined ex-cavalry officer adding up columns of figures in the basement of a huge American department store, who is recruited in a cellar bar to help swap counterfeit government securities and that very evening learns by wire that he has inherited a dukedom: later, when a railway guard drags...	[ "By-law 18" ]	By-law 18	string	1	hill_duke_decides	[ "hill_duke_decides", "hill_traitors_wooing" ]	2	0	199,550	[ "\"Defrauding the Company by traveling without previously paying the fare,\ncontrary to By-law 18.\"" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0032	retrieval	In the novel where a rich eastern prince, laughed off after proposing to a celebrated English heiress at a London ball, secretly bankrolls a polished London socialite to have a debt-ruined former cavalry officer make love to that heiress purely so she can be enticed aboard a hired fast yacht and shipped abroad against ...	[ "A Darracq. It had been presented to him by a titled fool as thanks for an introduction that eventually ruined that man." ]	A Darracq. It had been presented to him by a titled fool as thanks for an introduction that eventually ruined that man.	string	1	hill_traitors_wooing	[ "hill_traitors_wooing", "hill_duke_decides" ]	2	0	199,550	[ "serviceable little Darracq which had been presented to him by a titled\nidiot in gratitude for an introduction that had eventually ruined him." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0033	retrieval	One novel in the collection follows an orphaned brother and sister who hawk matches in the streets of a great English seaport, and whose chief protector is an elderly man paid to sit up all night beside a fenced-off stretch of road under repair, warming himself at an open fire outside a small wooden shed; he is torment...	[ "a brand new sixpence" ]	a brand new sixpence	string	1	hocking_benny_story	[ "hocking_squires_daughter", "hocking_benny_story" ]	2	1	233,275	[ "brand new sixpence--was put into his hand" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0034	retrieval	Among these books there is one whose narrator, a middle-aged officer employed to make recruiting speeches, is accosted on a harbour quay by a shabbily dressed passenger newly landed from the East who cannot recall his own name; the narrator christens him after a fine mansion visible from the seafront promenade, and the...	[ "May 29" ]	May 29	string	1	hocking_pomp_yesterday	[ "hocking_tommy", "hocking_pomp_yesterday" ]	2	1	180,760	[ "'I will put it down in my diary. Here we are. May 29,--you see there", "'There,' I said, and opened the diary at May 29." ]	0.054	en	draft	k1
retr-0035	retrieval	One of these books hinges on a tenancy that ran only so long as three named individuals stayed alive: an ageing ex-miner sinks his life's savings into breaking in a stretch of unenclosed moor, puts up a dwelling and farm buildings on it, and then loses the whole place to the man who owns the soil once the last of the t...	[ "Twenty-eight shillings and ninepence" ]	Twenty-eight shillings and ninepence	string	1	hocking_squires_daughter	[ "hocking_squires_daughter", "hocking_benny_story" ]	2	0	233,275	[ "took a small contract which kept him and three men he employed busy for\ntwo months, and left him at the end twenty-eight shillings and ninepence\npoorer than if he had stuck to his day labour" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0036	retrieval	One of these novels follows a young cloth-weaver from a smoky cotton-manufacturing town in the north of England who throws over his chapel-going sweetheart for a pub landlord's daughter, enlists as a private after hearing a recruiting speech, and much later catches a trusted staff officer of his own side passing plans ...	[ "B flat" ]	B flat	string	1	hocking_tommy	[ "hocking_pomp_yesterday", "hocking_tommy" ]	2	1	180,760	[ "\"When the note gets to about B flat,\" said the sergeant, \"you may know" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0037	retrieval	One of these books is a late-Victorian mystery in which a small, white-haired recluse, who for two decades had shut himself behind a high wall topped with broken glass and who used to scan the congregation each Sunday during the prayer begging deliverance from sudden death, is beaten to death in his own study, and whos...	[ "The Silver Arrow" ]	The Silver Arrow	string	1	hume_clock_struck	[ "hume_queer_street", "hume_clock_struck" ]	2	1	207,875	[ "part owner in a ship called the _Silver Arrow_, which traded to the" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0038	retrieval	One of the novels opens in a shabby East End establishment whose proprietress, a widowed former teacher of the young who speaks in relentlessly ornamental English, has grandly named her house after the nine classical patronesses of poetry and song; among her paying lodgers are a girl whose stage turn involves flames an...	[ "Sixpence extra for a cold bath and one shilling for a warm one." ]	Sixpence extra for a cold bath and one shilling for a warm one.	string	1	hume_queer_street	[ "hume_queer_street", "hume_clock_struck" ]	2	0	207,875	[ "Sixpence extra if cold and one shilling if warm." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0039	retrieval	This book is a run of dated first-person entries by a French lady's maid, each recounting a different wealthy English household she served in — great houses that keep turning out to be run by forgers, blackmailers, receivers or jewel thieves. In the entry where she is put aboard a night steamer carrying a heavy straw-w...	[ "vermilion (bright red)" ]	vermilion (bright red)	string	1	lequeux_indiscretions_ladys	[ "lequeux_indiscretions_ladys", "lequeux_whatsoever_man" ]	2	0	187,081	[ "was painted vermilion, the sides white, with one small black window." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0040	retrieval	One of these novels is narrated by a modestly-off bachelor who studies old buildings and collects old furniture, and who — to shield a reckless, unmarried young woman of rank — disguises himself as a night-shift newspaper typesetter and passes for months as her husband while she hides in a drab working-class suburb of ...	[ "Eighty pounds (\"eighty quid\")" ]	Eighty pounds ("eighty quid")	string	1	lequeux_whatsoever_man	[ "lequeux_whatsoever_man", "lequeux_indiscretions_ladys" ]	2	0	187,081	[ "here would give you eighty quid for it, and be pleased.\"" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0041	retrieval	In the late-Victorian novel in which a ruined stock-market speculator, after two identical new brown travelling bags are accidentally interchanged in a seaside railway refreshment room, opens the wrong bag in his hotel bedroom and finds a duchess's stolen jewels hidden among brand-new linen: when he inspects one of the...	[ "It had only one buttonhole in the front, whereas his own shirts had three." ]	It had only one buttonhole in the front, whereas his own shirts had three.	string	1	marsh_datchet_diamonds	[ "marsh_duel", "marsh_datchet_diamonds" ]	2	1	193,902	[ "shop; it had one buttonhole in front instead of three; it was not his" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0042	retrieval	In the novel where a destitute runaway wife, stranded in the Scottish countryside and lamed by a twisted ankle, is picked up in the dark by a country physician and persuaded to become the bedside bride of a bloated, paralysed landowner said to have only two hours to live — before he unexpectedly survives: earlier that ...	[ "pink tape" ]	pink tape	string	1	marsh_duel	[ "marsh_duel", "marsh_datchet_diamonds" ]	2	0	193,902	[ "At the bottom, under everything else, was a canvas bag. She took it\nout. It was tied round the neck with pink tape." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0043	retrieval	One novel in this collection turns on a landed family afflicted by an inherited defect of recollection: the stricken man loses every memory of the grave events of his life while retaining all trivial ones, then loses his energy and usually dies before thirty. Its young heir, in a night scuffle out on an open chalk upla...	[ "The Red Doe" ]	The Red Doe	string	1	meade_dr_rumseys	[ "meade_dr_rumseys", "tracy_pillar" ]	2	0	207,290	[ "Two young men in flannels were standing outside the door of the Red Doe\nin the picturesque village of Grandcourt." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0044	retrieval	In the Victorian story where a dying squire binds his two unmarried daughters, on pain of forfeiting their own inheritance, to advertise across the world for a robust boy under fifteen descended from the son their ancestor cast out in the 1680s — and where a woman hiding in a tiny vine-smothered woodland cottage is mis...	[ "Elijah and James Grasper" ]	Elijah and James Grasper	string	1	meade_lady_forest	[ "meade_lady_forest", "meade_little_princess" ]	2	0	165,588	[ "I'll stay and play with my ravens, Elijah and James Grasper. Elijah is" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0045	retrieval	In the novel about a rich country landowner's petted only daughter -- a child who cannot yet read a word or tell the hour from a clock face, and who slips out at dawn to sell her best feather-trimmed hat at a shop that lends money on pledged goods so that a hungry street child can buy a jingling hand-drum to sing and d...	[ "Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, and Sandford and Merton" ]	Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, and Sandford and Merton	list	1	meade_little_princess	[ "boothby_pharos", "meade_little_princess" ]	2	1	202,841	[ "selected a green and gayly bound volume, which\nRalph had called \"Robinson Crusoe;\" another, which he had entitled \"Swiss\nFamily Robinson,\" and a book bound in brown", "'Robinson Crusoe' did bump so when he\nfell on the floor, and so did the 'Family,' but none of them bumped quite\nso hard as 'Sandford and ...	0.021	en	draft	k1
retr-0046	retrieval	One of the novels in the collection is the reminiscence in which an aged southern-African warrior describes being ordered to go out alone and destroy a gigantic horned thing that had been slaughtering the metal-workers who dug in a cliff-ringed hollow; while hunting it he is drawn inside a rock face that opens and shut...	[ "Speckled pigeons (knocked down with throwing-sticks); the fire was kindled on the flat top of a high rock, for safety's sake." ]	Speckled pigeons (knocked down with throwing-sticks); the fire was kindled on the flat top of a high rock, for safety's sake.	string	1	mitford_indunas_wife	[ "mitford_indunas_wife", "mitford_red_derelict" ]	2	0	236,570	[ "He had a number of speckled pigeons, which he had knocked over with his", "kerries; and having kindled a fire on the flat top of a high rock for" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0047	retrieval	One novel in this collection turns on an English gentleman's estate where imported African horned game is kept and bred inside a fenced-off quarter of the grounds; one of the creatures gets loose, pursues a young woman riding a bicycle along a public road that crosses the property, smashes her machine to pieces, and is...	[ "A Kodak, Bull's-eye Number 2" ]	A Kodak, Bull's-eye Number 2	string	1	mitford_red_derelict	[ "mitford_indunas_wife", "mitford_red_derelict" ]	2	1	236,570	[ "\"Only a Kodak. Bull's-eye Number 2. But I understand time exposures," ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0048	retrieval	One of these books opens at stormy daybreak in a half-ruined religious house on a small island, where a dying man from England has his bed dragged to the window to watch a vessel force the harbour mouth against a warning signal, and who then shoots his visitor dead with a pistol hidden in the bedclothes, the effort kil...	[ "A guinea, bought in Bond Street." ]	A guinea, bought in Bond Street.	string	1	oppenheim_monk_cruta	[ "oppenheim_monk_cruta", "oppenheim_yellow_house" ]	2	0	182,167	[ "a guinea for you in Bond Street, and with your dainty morocco case" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0049	retrieval	One book in the collection is narrated by a clergyman's daughter, schooled abroad and newly arrived at a country parish, who befriends the one woman the whole county refuses to call upon, and who eventually learns that this woman — a journalist of advanced political opinions who had on principle declined to go through ...	[ "Buszard's" ]	Buszard's	string	1	oppenheim_yellow_house	[ "oppenheim_monk_cruta", "oppenheim_yellow_house" ]	2	1	182,167	[ "I will give you some Buszard’s cake,” she answered, laughing" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0050	retrieval	One novel in the context is narrated in the first person by an elderly French army surgeon attached to the Emperor's guard, who recounts the ruinous winter withdrawal from a burning eastern capital and the scrapes of his reckless nephew, a young captain of that same guard; the surgeon is at one point shut up alone in a...	[ "Five hundred francs" ]	Five hundred francs	string	1	pemberton_great_white	[ "pemberton_great_white", "pemberton_jewel_mysteries" ]	2	0	183,682	[ "offered five hundred francs to any man who would tell him of her" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0051	retrieval	In the collection of linked cases narrated in the first person by a fashionable Victorian gem merchant, where each separate episode is built around one particular precious stone, one comic case concerns a notoriously miserly old peer who quietly pockets what he believes to be the enameled sleeve ornaments he had grudgi...	[ "The Cock and Lobster" ]	The Cock and Lobster	string	1	pemberton_jewel_mysteries	[ "pemberton_jewel_mysteries", "pemberton_great_white" ]	2	0	183,681	[ "second-rate hotel, called \"The Cock and Lobster,\" inquiring for the" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0052	retrieval	In the novel in which an elderly scientist steals a small inscribed block of dark stone from a monastery library on a lake island in north-east Africa, fails for years to decipher it, and therefore marries a poor laundress he picks at random out of the crowd on a London bridge so as to breed a son he can rear on an uni...	[ "More than £14,000" ]	More than £14,000	string	1	shiel_isle_lies	[ "hocking_tommy", "shiel_isle_lies" ]	2	1	161,001	[ "his books alone cost me a sum of more than\n£14,000: for, owing to my purpose" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0053	retrieval	In the novel in which an English country gentleman — raised from the age of five in eastern Europe, and secretly sworn as a youth to a revolutionary secret society whose governing council later draws his name by lot to carry out a death sentence on a titled German ex-diplomat renting a house near his own — is accused o...	[ "A hairdresser's assistant (one whose father had left him a little money)" ]	A hairdresser's assistant (one whose father had left him a little money)	string	1	speight_dead_reckoning	[ "white_weight_crown", "speight_dead_reckoning" ]	2	1	181,560	[ "be no nobleman at all, but only a hairdresser's assistant whose father" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0054	retrieval	One novel in this collection opens with a stranger who has just stepped off a train on a busy market day taking, almost sight unseen, a lonely stone house at the edge of a northern English moor; the haunting the locals swear by turns out to be nothing more than a low evening sun throwing, through a coloured window on t...	[ "Eighteen pounds three shillings" ]	Eighteen pounds three shillings	string	1	tracy_house_round	[ "tracy_house_round", "tracy_pillar" ]	2	0	202,451	[ "conveyance--eighteen pounds three shillings in all. Let us adjourn to" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0055	retrieval	In the novel where a keeper of an isolated sea-light swims out to a drifting ship's boat, kills a large man-eating fish with a knife on the way, and finds a starving baby girl alive beneath a fallen sail: after the fight was over the keeper had a heavy tool lowered down to him and set to work on the dead creature. What...	[ "Its teeth — he chopped out the shark's teeth, to serve as mementoes for the rescued girl if she grew up." ]	Its teeth — he chopped out the shark's teeth, to serve as mementoes for the rescued girl if she grew up.	string	1	tracy_pillar	[ "tracy_house_round", "tracy_pillar" ]	2	1	202,451	[ "\"I want to chop out that shark's teeth. They will serve as mementoes for" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0056	retrieval	In the novel where a man and a woman are the only two people washed alive onto a small deserted island from a wrecked liner, and where a large round bare pit cut into the hillside holds, below a certain level, a heavy invisible air that kills anything that climbs down into it, its floor strewn with the bones of workmen...	[ "Sixty" ]	Sixty	number	1	tracy_wings	[ "tracy_wings", "tracy_house_round" ]	2	0	213,501	[ "particular business was to prepare\nno less than sixty rungs for the rope-ladder." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0057	retrieval	Consider the first-person Victorian narrative in which a rich, vanity-ridden young man about town, celebrated for his looks, tears open one side of his own face with his own sporting weapon while squeezing through a gap in a hedge at a game-shoot, and afterwards buries himself in a rented northern deer-forest. In the l...	[ "a glove, a packet of dried flowers, and a little silver match-box" ]	a glove, a packet of dried flowers, and a little silver match-box	list	1	warden_witch_hills	[ "warden_witch_hills", "farjeon_miser_farebrother2" ]	2	0	125,046	[ "And there is a glove, of course, and a packet of dried\n flowers, of course, and the little silver match-box." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0058	retrieval	One of these books follows a young man who is in fact the lawful owner of a great English country house but keeps that fact hidden, and who goes so far as to give the person falsely pressing a claim on that same inheritance the one certificate that person still needs — all so that the proud girl he loves will be pushed...	[ "£5,193 17s. 4d." ]	£5,193 17s. 4d.	string	1	white_millstone	[ "white_slave", "white_millstone" ]	2	1	253,248	[ "There's\nthe docyment on that little marble table. Suit of Mayfield and Co.,\n£5,193 17_s_. 4_d_., debt and costs.", "you with the paper that you most desire. If you will look at this long\nslip of paper, you will see that it is a copy, certified, of the\nmarriage in question." ]	0.291	en	draft	k1
retr-0059	retrieval	One of these novels turns on a young woman who is pushed into marrying a man she cannot stand in order to shield her father from prosecution, and whose father is found dead in his hotel bed on the day of the wedding — a death the bridegroom keeps quiet so that the service will go through. In that novel, at the dinner g...	[ "74" ]	74	number	1	white_slave	[ "white_millstone", "white_slave" ]	2	1	253,247	[ "It was a clean card, printed in red and gold, and opposite No. 74 was a\npencilled note." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0060	retrieval	In this collection there is a novel about a young woman who, on the very day she is dismissed from a fashionable London hat shop, is paid to take the place of a society girl who looks exactly like her at a grand diplomatic evening party, so that the society girl can slip away and steal papers from the house of a glamor...	[ "Two guineas a week" ]	Two guineas a week	string	1	white_weight_crown	[ "white_millstone", "white_weight_crown" ]	2	1	252,389	[ "She was prepared to give a whole two guineas a week for" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0061	retrieval	In the book of linked adventures whose hero is an idle, immensely rich young English nobleman travelling in America, and in which he is shut up by six armed men in their thick-walled stone sleeping cabin, escapes in the small hours by climbing the cold flue of their fireplace, and then walls himself into their diggings...	[ "Five-dollar, ten-dollar, and hundred-dollar bills" ]	Five-dollar, ten-dollar, and hundred-dollar bills	list	1	barr_lord_stranleigh	[ "barr_prince_good", "barr_lord_stranleigh" ]	2	1	163,634	[ "\"Send me at once by express, registered and insured, twenty thousand\ndollars in currency, made up of five dollar, ten dollar, and hundred\ndollar bills.\"" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0062	retrieval	In the book of linked episodes where a northern clan chief entertains his sovereign for three days in an enormous castle built entirely of pine logs, and then, as the royal party rides away down the glen, has the whole building deliberately set alight as a parting salute, an earlier scene shows that same chief's musici...	[ "Nine" ]	Nine	string	1	barr_prince_good	[ "barr_prince_good", "barr_lord_stranleigh" ]	2	0	163,634	[ "the fingers of the musician bravely kept up the strain\non the reed chanter with its nine holes" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0063	retrieval	One novel in this collection centres on a transplanted colony of well-born English farmers on the Canadian plains, founded and ruled by an autocratic old soldier who insists his people dine formally each evening in forty degrees of frost, allows no money staked on cards, and holds that oxen are good enough for breaking...	[ "60" ]	60	number	1	bindloss_impostor	[ "bindloss_impostor", "bindloss_intriguers" ]	2	0	213,988	[ "here, I'll get some sleep. I've sixty miles to ride to-morrow." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0064	retrieval	In the novel where a British engineer officer, forced out of the army after a night attack in the Indian hills because he silently let the blame for a call to stop firing rest on himself instead of on his cousin, afterward crosses the frozen Canadian North with an American commercial traveller who is hunting a tree sap...	[ "Forty guineas." ]	Forty guineas.	string	1	bindloss_intriguers	[ "bindloss_intriguers", "bindloss_impostor" ]	2	0	213,989	[ "\"The greasy thing cost forty guineas, and I\nwouldn't trust it to Jenkins after young Jimmy dropped it in a ditch." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0065	retrieval	One of these novels contains a night-long hunt through a colonial city in which the searchers match the last letters of a street name on a torn piece of an envelope to an written shop mark at the foot of an evening newspaper, trace both to the same small shop, are sent across the road to a druggist, and there read off ...	[ "The words were \"I will Pay--W., and give stick!\", to be advertised on the 18th, 19th and 20th of that month." ]	The words were "I will Pay--W., and give stick!", to be advertised on the 18th, 19th and 20th of that month.	string	1	boothby_bid	[ "boothby_bid", "boothby_marriage_esther" ]	2	0	194,723	[ "\"Brown, Williams, Davis--ah! here it is. 'Chloroform: J. Venneage, 22,\nCalliope Street, Woolahra.'\"", "If you are agreeable to this, advertise as follows, 'I\n will Pay--W., and give stick!' in the agony column _Sydney Morning\n Herald_, on the 18th, 19th, and 20th of this present month." ]	0.129	en	draft	k1
retr-0066	retrieval	In the late-Victorian South Seas novel in which a ruined Englishman is engaged as a rough-work hand at a pearl-fishing station, marries the owner's daughter after her father comes back from a voyage with his spine broken by a fall down a companion ladder, and at the end sees his small, deformed, hard-drinking book-keep...	[ "Hennessey's Cognac" ]	Hennessey's Cognac	string	1	boothby_marriage_esther	[ "boothby_bid", "boothby_marriage_esther" ]	2	1	194,723	[ "He drew it\nout--an unopened bottle of Hennessey's Cognac. Again he inserted his\nhand, and again he drew out a bottle--another--and still another." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0067	retrieval	One of these books is presented as the written confession of an English painter who becomes the helpless instrument of a tiny, hideous old foreigner — a man who is never parted from a small pet animal tucked inside his coat, who takes no food but fruit and a few plain cakes with a white powder stirred into a glass of w...	[ "A large Satsuma bowl." ]	A large Satsuma bowl.	string	1	boothby_pharos	[ "boothby_bid", "boothby_pharos" ]	2	1	242,165	[ "the room to a table on which stood a large Satsuma bowl, in which it was" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0068	retrieval	In the novel in which an idle young English millionaire secretly pays to have a prisoner smuggled off a bleak Russian penal island as a service to the woman he loves, and afterwards learns from the boarding officer of a searching warship that the man he rescued is Europe's most expert jewel thief and no relation of her...	[ "Number 6" ]	Number 6	string	1	boothby_red_rats	[ "boothby_bid", "boothby_red_rats" ]	2	1	222,146	[ "Reserve 'No. 6' for me, if it is not already engaged; and\nmake it look as nice as you possibly can." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0069	retrieval	One of these books ends with its Irish narrator taking armed possession of a country house in the south of England that he has no legal right to, garrisoning it with smugglers and idle seafaring men he hires off the street of a little seaport, and beating off an assault by luring the attacking party into a long-disused...	[ "He was sawn in two with a wooden saw, down by the bridge in front of the house." ]	He was sawn in two with a wooden saw, down by the bridge in front of the house.	string	1	crane_oruddy_romance	[ "boothby_marriage_esther", "crane_oruddy_romance" ]	2	1	210,818	[ "Bullet\nwouldn't harm him, nor steel cut him, so they sawed him in two with a\nwooden saw down by the bridge in front." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0070	retrieval	One of these books is a collection of seven romance tales by a single author. In one tale a bride's carriage horses bolt away from the church, the crash drives glass through her arm, and her brand-new husband sails for the far side of the world without her the following day. In another, a soured money-maker who has spe...	[ "The Badger" ]	The Badger	string	1	dell_odds_other	[ "dell_top_world", "dell_odds_other" ]	2	1	282,499	[ "river with his old manservant, nicknamed \"the Badger.\"" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0071	retrieval	One of these novels follows a young woman in England whose new stepmother quietly holds back the letters coming to her from her sweetheart overseas, so that, believing herself abandoned, she almost consents to marry a rich, coarse hunting man; when she discovers the letters were stolen she sails out at once to a hot, d...	[ "Rose - short for Fair Rosamond." ]	Rose - short for Fair Rosamond.	string	1	dell_top_world	[ "dell_odds_other", "dell_top_world" ]	2	1	282,499	[ "And there's a girl, too, uglier than Mary Ann, a relation of", "hers--called Rose, short for Fair Rosamond. Haven't you seen Rose" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0072	retrieval	Identify the book: a linked series of criminal investigations worked up from the private journals of a secret-service agent of a great eastern empire, closing with one final case that leaves that empire altogether for a snowbound country house outside a northern British city, where a different detective proves that a s...	[ "Palm-oil and ivory" ]	Palm-oil and ivory	string	1	donovan_chronicles_michael	[ "fletcher_days_drake", "donovan_chronicles_michael" ]	2	1	191,446	[ "He was captain of the barque _Bonnie Scotland_, which had arrived at\nLeith a few weeks before from the Gold Coast with a cargo of palm-oil\nand ivory." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0073	retrieval	One of these books opens with a very old husband and wife who had been installed in a great decayed country house years earlier as its watchers, on wages that were never paid, and who slowly waste from hunger until they are at last found dead together on the kitchen floor; afterwards the neighbourhood settles on the id...	[ "Sixty miles" ]	Sixty miles	string	1	farjeon_miser_farebrother	[ "farjeon_miser_farebrother", "farjeon_miser_farebrother2" ]	2	0	133,837	[ "she had tramped a matter of sixty miles to Parksides in the hope\nthat her parents might be able to assist her.", "So desperate were their circumstances that she\nwould stop with them only one night" ]	0.001	en	draft	k1
retr-0074	retrieval	In the book that ends with a police officer who, rather than loosen his grip on the two people he has seized in a night fog, is dragged down an embankment onto a railway line and has a foot cut clean off by a passing train, yet lives to be feted and to attend a double wedding: near the start of that same book a young w...	[ "He came in a carriage and pair, with two footmen." ]	He came in a carriage and pair, with two footmen.	string	1	farjeon_miser_farebrother2	[ "farjeon_miser_farebrother", "farjeon_miser_farebrother2" ]	2	1	133,837	[ "there were the fees of the\ncelebrated physician who was called in, and who came in a carriage and\npair with two footmen" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0075	retrieval	One book in this collection turns on the strangling of an elderly police pensioner in a fir plantation on the wooded hill above a small northern market town, done with a piece of greasy cord cut from a coil that hung outside the shed of a neighbour who slaughtered pigs and poached for his living. That neighbour, taken ...	[ "She said she set it by the almanack and by the sunrise and sunset, every day." ]	She said she set it by the almanack and by the sunrise and sunset, every day.	string	1	fletcher_borough_treasurer	[ "fletcher_days_drake", "fletcher_borough_treasurer" ]	2	1	160,295	[ "My clock's always right--I set it by the almanack and", "the sunrise and sunset every day--and you can't do better," ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0076	retrieval	In the first-person memoir of an elderly English country magistrate who looks back on how a jealous kinsman paid a foreign shipmaster to drug him and carry him overseas, so that he was condemned by a religious tribunal in the New World, paraded through a city square in a painted penitential coat, afterwards seared on b...	[ "The constellation Virgo; he had studied the heavens because more than once he had found himself at sea without a compass" ]	The constellation Virgo; he had studied the heavens because more than once he had found himself at sea without a compass	string	1	fletcher_days_drake	[ "fletcher_days_drake", "fletcher_borough_treasurer" ]	2	0	160,295	[ "having for our guide the constellation Virgo, which Pharaoh Nanjulian\nknew and pointed out to me with some learning", "I have studied the heavens somewhat,\nbecause more than once it has been my lot to find myself at sea without\na compass" ]	0.001	en	draft	k1
retr-0077	retrieval	In the murder mystery where an elderly antiquarian expert testifies in court that the apparently solid arched wall bridging a narrow back lane — the wall that joins an ancient church tower to the fortified medieval hall of a small English borough — is really hollow, concealing a forgotten passage that runs from the pan...	[ "Aldershot, Gibraltar, Malta, Cairo, Peshawar" ]	Aldershot, Gibraltar, Malta, Cairo, Peshawar	list	1	fletcher_mayor	[ "fletcher_mayor", "fletcher_borough_treasurer" ]	2	0	214,242	[ "from Aldershot to Gibraltar, and Gibraltar to Malta,\nand Malta to Cairo, and Cairo to Peshawar" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0078	retrieval	In one of these novels the man ultimately behind the killings turns out to be a rich, placid, elderly resident of a cathedral enclosure who has lived for years under a borrowed name and passes all his days among his flowers; cornered at last in the snug upper chamber he had built on top of a dry, disused well on his ow...	[ "Stocking-making" ]	Stocking-making	string	1	fletcher_paradise	[ "fletcher_paradise", "fletcher_borough_treasurer" ]	2	0	218,146	[ "famous for nothing except that it had been the scene of a battle at\nthe time of the Wars of the Roses, and that its trade was mainly in\nagriculture and stocking-making", "the bullet, passing between his arm\nand body, found its billet in Bryce, who fell, with little more than a\ngroan, shot through the heart."...	0.695	en	draft	k1
retr-0079	retrieval	One novel in the collection follows an orphaned boy who, after the sudden death of the eccentric bachelor who had been bringing him up alongside two girls in a rambling country house, is packed off to the capital and set to hauling parcels in a huge general dealer's; he teaches himself to write at night in a rented att...	[ "Eleven and sixpence" ]	Eleven and sixpence	string	1	gallon_jimmy_quixote	[ "gallon_jimmy_quixote", "gallon_tinman" ]	2	0	262,785	[ "About nine hundred words--and I paid eleven and\nsixpence for it. He's a beginner; but he'll do well presently." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0080	retrieval	In the novel in which a wife escapes an unhappy marriage by leaving a farewell note in her cabin and seeming to go overboard in mid-ocean, when in fact a stewardess hides her in an empty second-class berth for the rest of the passage, so that she walks ashore veiled among the other passengers and lives for twenty years...	[ "A long bath towel, knotted about his elbows" ]	A long bath towel, knotted about his elbows	string	1	gallon_tinman	[ "gallon_jimmy_quixote", "gallon_tinman" ]	2	1	262,785	[ "Dawkins had most skilfully knotted a long bath towel about my elbows, so" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0081	retrieval	One of the supplied novels contains this episode: a well-born young Englishman who has come out to the goldfields to make his living picks a quarrel with a man he catches beating a dog, is shot in the leg as he rides away from that other settlement, and is found sitting helpless in a clearing by a girl who tracks his l...	[ "She asked the doctor for it (“Give it to me”), turned it over in her hand, and then slipped it into the inner breast-pocket of her riding habit — refusing to say why when he asked whether she meant to wear it as a charm." ]	She asked the doctor for it (“Give it to me”), turned it over in her hand, and then slipped it into the inner breast-pocket of her riding habit — refusing to say why when he asked whether she meant to wear it as a charm.	string	1	garvice_just_girl	[ "garvice_just_girl", "garvice_only_one" ]	2	0	353,029	[ "“It’s all right, Ralda. The bullet was in his calf. Here it is.” He\nheld it out between his finger and thumb.", "and turned it over with her slim brown finger; then she slipped it\ninto the inner breast-pocket of her habit." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0082	retrieval	One novel in this collection contains a night scene in which an enormously rich young titled woman, driving home from a fashionable ball in her own small closed carriage, has her horse pulled up over a young gentleman lying in the roadway — he had strayed out of his club after too much wine — and, ignoring his protests...	[ "Under the seat in the billiard-room (at his club)" ]	Under the seat in the billiard-room (at his club)	string	1	garvice_only_one	[ "garvice_only_one", "garvice_just_girl" ]	2	0	353,029	[ "pocket-handkerchief, which at that moment was lying under the seat in\nthe billiard-room." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0083	retrieval	Consider the novel in which a big shaggy hound rescues its young master from a three-year-old bull that had knocked him to the ground and was standing over him ready to gore him, tearing at the beast's throat until it had to be shot; and in which, much later, a jealous rider is killed on a fox hunt when his horse catch...	[ "Ten shillings" ]	Ten shillings	string	1	gould_runaways_new	[ "gould_runaways_new", "gould_settling_day" ]	2	0	151,506	[ "Ulick gave him ten shillings in silver, and when the lad saw it in his\nhand he cried for joy" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0084	retrieval	Exactly one of these books is set on remote grazing country in colonial Australia and turns on a woman of mixed blood, kept as housekeeper on a lonely run, who is carried off to order for a rich neighbouring landholder, escapes the room he locks her in by tearing up flooring that insects had eaten hollow underneath, an...	[ "That he could neither read nor write - he was illiterate, and so could not have forged a signature to a bill." ]	That he could neither read nor write - he was illiterate, and so could not have forged a signature to a bill.	string	1	gould_settling_day	[ "gould_runaways_new", "gould_settling_day" ]	2	1	151,506	[ "'Because I can't read or write.'", "The Crown prosecutor blinked, and eventually Samuel Potter was" ]	0.001	en	draft	k1
retr-0085	retrieval	One of these books centres on a crippled, fire-scarred Jewish exile who directs a worldwide secret society from an invalid chair, and who for years has bent the will of a young English peer by a hypnotic power, so that the peer unknowingly lives two entirely separate lives, ignorant in each of what he does in the other...	[ "Herr F. Niemand" ]	Herr F. Niemand	string	1	griffith_angel	[ "griffith_angel", "griffith_olga" ]	2	0	361,892	[ "There were several letters for each of them, those for Natas being\naddressed to \"Herr F. Niemand,\"" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0086	retrieval	One of these books opens with a body of thirteen men, who had governed the whole earth for a hundred and twenty-five years by virtue of their command of the upper regions, formally laying that power down inside a vaulted church and handing the nations back to themselves; the woman who afterwards sets out to undo that s...	[ "Brussels, Berlin, Königsberg, Moscow, Nijni Novgorod, Tomsk, Tobolsk, Irkutsk, and Pekin." ]	Brussels, Berlin, Königsberg, Moscow, Nijni Novgorod, Tomsk, Tobolsk, Irkutsk, and Pekin.	list	1	griffith_olga	[ "griffith_olga", "griffith_angel" ]	2	0	361,891	[ "the train by\nwhich Olga and Serge were about to travel, stopped only at Brussels,\nBerlin, Königsberg, Moscow, Nijni Novgorod, Tomsk, Tobolsk, Irkutsk,\nand Pekin" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0087	retrieval	One of these books is a late-Victorian scientific romance whose narrator is a prince of a long-destroyed mountain empire who was placed in an artificially induced trance in the sixteenth century and is chemically revived in the author's own day; the young woman revived alongside him comes back with her mind wiped blank...	[ "Three letters and two telegrams." ]	Three letters and two telegrams.	string	1	griffith_romance_golden	[ "griffith_romance_golden", "griffith_angel" ]	2	0	274,733	[ "and three letters and two\ntelegrams which the professor had sent to him, after being himself\ndenied admittance, remained unanswered." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0088	retrieval	One of the supplied novels tells of a private syndicate, formed by an English earl's household together with an American electrical millionaire, which sends the governments of Europe a printed announcement offering to let them fight on payment of one dollar a week for every armed man they keep in the field, the money t...	[ "He was drawn along the useless railway from Paris to Calais by relays of horses harnessed to a light truck, and that truck ran on wheels of papier-mache; from Calais he crossed to Dover in a fishing-lugger." ]	He was drawn along the useless railway from Paris to Calais by relays of horses harnessed to a light truck, and that truck ran on wheels of papier-mache; from Calais he crossed to Dover in a fishing-lugger.	string	1	griffith_world_masters	[ "griffith_world_masters", "griffith_angel" ]	2	0	309,718	[ "drawn along the useless railway from Paris to Calais by relays of\nhorses harnessed to a light truck running on wheels of papier-maché,\nembarked for Dover on board a fishing-lugger." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0089	retrieval	In the novel where a newly-succeeded English nobleman with a lame foot is hunted by a criminal ring whose frail, white-bearded, invalid chief is at the end unmasked as a fashionable American widow who has been staying as a guest in his own country house, and where a retired Indian-service officer and his Asian orderly ...	[ "L230 per annum (£230 a year)" ]	L230 per annum (£230 a year)	string	1	hill_duke_decides	[ "hill_duke_decides", "hill_traitors_wooing" ]	2	0	199,550	[ "They gave me a\ntwenty-pound rise last year, so my pay as a third-grade clerk in the\nForeign Office is now the princely sum of L230 per annum." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0090	retrieval	In the novel where a disgraced English officer, reduced to drilling an eastern potentate's bodyguard, is shipped home with his bought-up debts held over him and told to make a rich manufacturer's daughter fall in love with him so that she can be coaxed aboard a chartered fast steamer: a sour, funeral-haunting busybody ...	[ "A stop-watch, which he carried for timing the speed of motor cars." ]	A stop-watch, which he carried for timing the speed of motor cars.	string	1	hill_traitors_wooing	[ "hill_traitors_wooing", "hill_duke_decides" ]	2	0	199,550	[ "He was known to\ncarry a stop-watch for timing the speed of motor cars; he spent hours in\n\"shadowing\" small boys whom he hoped to detect stealing apples" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0091	retrieval	One book in the collection is a Victorian tale of an orphaned brother and sister who sell matches in the streets of a great English seaport; after the sister dies the boy is taken on as an office lad by a merchant, is falsely accused of taking a bank-note left lying on a desk, and is cleared only years afterwards, when...	[ "a turnip" ]	a turnip	string	1	hocking_benny_story	[ "hocking_benny_story", "hocking_squires_daughter" ]	2	0	233,275	[ "took out two, and by the aid of a large\nclasp-knife had both peeled in a", "By the time our hero had finished his turnip they had reached a small" ]	0.001	en	draft	k1
retr-0092	retrieval	Among these books, one is narrated by a middle-aged officer whose only war duty at first is making platform speeches to persuade men to volunteer. He takes up a shabby stranger who steps ashore from a vessel out of the East unable to recall his own name, sees him serve in the ranks and rise to major, and learns in the ...	[ "a pair of patent-leather dancing shoes" ]	a pair of patent-leather dancing shoes	string	1	hocking_pomp_yesterday	[ "hocking_tommy", "hocking_pomp_yesterday" ]	2	1	180,760	[ "'He wrote a letter to his mother yesterday, and told her to get him a\npair of patent-leather dancing shoes." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0093	retrieval	One of these books turns on a young man who works out that a hillside dump of mine waste — gravel and clay tipped out for three generations, and so worthless that its owners actually had to pay for the ground it kept burying — can be made into a cheap building material. He obtains the owners' leave to cart it away, sup...	[ "At eighty per cent premium" ]	At eighty per cent premium	string	1	hocking_squires_daughter	[ "hocking_squires_daughter", "hocking_benny_story" ]	2	0	233,275	[ "his directors would no longer hold\nthemselves bound by the terms of the concession they had made", "she managed to pick up a few Great St. Goram shares at eighty\nper cent. premium." ]	0.35	en	draft	k1
retr-0094	retrieval	One of these books follows a young mill hand from a smoky northern weaving town who, after being punished for drunkenness during training, starts spending his evenings at a soldiers' welfare hut learning conversational French, and who much later crawls out into the open ground between the opposing front lines to wrestl...	[ "A cow" ]	A cow	string	1	hocking_tommy	[ "hocking_tommy", "hocking_pomp_yesterday" ]	2	0	180,760	[ "when he was buying a cow, 'be sure to look at the stock before you" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0095	retrieval	One of these books is a late-Victorian English mystery in which the owner of a shut-up country house imprisons his own household every night — the single servant fastened into the kitchen with her sleeping-place adjoining it, the young lady of the house closed into her own upstairs rooms, heavy shutters bolted over eve...	[ "four twenty-six" ]	four twenty-six	string	1	hume_clock_struck	[ "hume_clock_struck", "hume_queer_street" ]	2	0	207,874	[ "would catch the four twenty-six train from that place.", "cleaned, and did all the work, was locked up in the kitchen, with", "which the assassin had passed had been bricked up, by Dora's order." ]	0.261	en	draft	k1
retr-0096	retrieval	One of these novels closes with its murderer — a dandified young card-cheat who had turned to blackmail — leaping through a window to escape arrest, firing a tinder-dry wood to put a wall of flame between himself and his pursuers, and dying under a falling tree in the blaze he had lit; he had committed the killing whil...	[ "Amber satin, black lace and diamonds." ]	Amber satin, black lace and diamonds.	string	1	hume_queer_street	[ "hume_queer_street", "hume_clock_struck" ]	2	0	207,875	[ "Amber satin, black lace and diamonds, oddly enough, seemed as\nnatural to her as the more or less masculine dress which she affected\nduring her business hours." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0097	retrieval	The narrator of this book is a young Frenchwoman who hired herself out to dress and wait on wealthy Englishwomen, setting down one post after another, each of which turns out sooner or later to be run by criminals. In one of these places — a large, severe old house on the main road of a sleepy little town the railway h...	[ "about the size of a sixpence" ]	about the size of a sixpence	string	1	lequeux_indiscretions_ladys	[ "lequeux_indiscretions_ladys", "lequeux_whatsoever_man" ]	2	0	187,081	[ "Upon the sleeve lace was a stain of blood the size of\na sixpence, while upon the edge of the silk under-skirt showed another" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0098	retrieval	One of these novels contains a house in which the topmost few steps of a staircase are hinged, so that anyone climbing them is tipped over backwards into a deep shaft ending in an underground stream; the same book also has a shrivelled, preserved human eye kept in a small case in the false bottom of a metal-lined cavit...	[ "A green omnibus lettered \"Bayswater\"" ]	A green omnibus lettered "Bayswater"	string	1	lequeux_whatsoever_man	[ "lequeux_whatsoever_man", "lequeux_indiscretions_ladys" ]	2	0	187,081	[ "An omnibus rumbled over me, and I saw that it was a green \"Bayswater,\"" ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0099	retrieval	In the late-Victorian mystery in which a speculator, wiped out by a fall in American railway stock, walks off with a jewel thief's identical brand-new brown travelling bag from a seaside station refreshment room and finds a ducal collection of stolen gems packed among the clean underclothes inside: the heroine shares a...	[ "Eighteenpence, or even half a crown." ]	Eighteenpence, or even half a crown.	string	1	marsh_datchet_diamonds	[ "marsh_datchet_diamonds", "marsh_duel" ]	2	0	193,901	[ "you eighteenpence--or even half a crown." ]	0	en	draft	k1
retr-0100	retrieval	In the novel that ends with a ruined woman — her wits destroyed by the spirit she had taken to drinking — being lured back to a shut-up Scottish house by two drawings of a carved chimney-piece and frightened into signing a confession of murder in the dead man's bedroom: an elderly titled widow was in the habit of consu...	[ "A scarlet satin gown" ]	A scarlet satin gown	string	1	marsh_duel	[ "marsh_datchet_diamonds", "marsh_duel" ]	2	1	193,901	[ "written to them to learn if they thought that it\nwould be becoming for her to attend a drawing-room in a scarlet\nsatin gown." ]	0	en	draft	k1

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MM Long Storytelling Bench — v3

⚠️ The 756 model-drafted questions have been WITHDRAWN from this dataset's splits (2026-08-05). They were drafted by a model that is also an evaluation target, which makes them circular as a measurement instrument. They are kept in full, with the reasoning, under data/v3/archive/ — nothing was deleted.

The splits currently hold 6 worked examples (status: "example"), which document the required format and are not a benchmark. Do not use this dataset for evaluation yet.

Human-written replacements are in progress: 600 questions across a 100-source active cohort, each recording its author and a separate verifier. The corpus below — 125 sources, 13.5M tokens — is complete, verified, and unaffected.

The corpus is the finished part of v3. It roughly doubles v2 and covers every source.

	v2	v3
sources	60	125
distinct authors	30	96
tokens	6,452,749	13,502,628
questions in splits	354	6 examples (756 withdrawn → `data/v3/archive/`)

What changed from v2

65 new sources. Sampled across 11 genre bands using Project Gutenberg's own subject headings and bookshelves, and across five era bands by author birth year — deliberately reaching past v2's 1890s–1920s concentration. Author cap enforced corpus-wide: no author appears twice.
Multi-volume works are now whole novels. v2 contained single volumes of multi-volume works, which are not novels — a middle volume has no beginning and no ending. Nine such fragments were found; eight had complete sets on Project Gutenberg and were merged into complete works, one was dropped. Notably farjeon_miser_farebrother and farjeon_miser_farebrother2 in v2 were volumes 1 and 3 of the same novel, with volume 2 missing entirely; v3 ships the complete three-volume novel, and its 12 questions were re-anchored to it with no answer changes.
Corrected count. v2's question files hold 354 questions across 59 sources — not the "348 across 58" previously recorded.
Chapter structure restored for every source (sources/structure.json); 101 of 125 have detectable chapters.

Verification

verify.py re-derives every claim from the corpus text rather than trusting stored metadata, and gates on 13 checks — all passing:

story ids unique; stored tokens/words match a recount; every source clears a 50,000-token floor; no source is a volume fragment; n_chapters consistent across files
every gold_story_id resolves; every question has a non-empty answer and ≥1 supporting quote
every supporting quote appears verbatim in its gold source, and exactly once — so each span is deterministically locatable
stored separation matches a recount
the answer never appears in its own question; no supporting quote appears in its question

Additionally, within a source no question contains another question's answer, since the eval packs a source's questions together.

Token counts use cl100k_base; word counts use \w+. Both reproduce all 60 of v2's stored values exactly.

Known limitations — please read before using

Nothing is human-verified. All 756 items are status: draft.
The difficulty gate is mostly unrun. Closed-book answerability has been checked on 30 items only. An item a model can answer without the text measures recall, not reading; that check is what makes this a reading benchmark, and it is incomplete.
Four sources were drafted from a partial read. The largest merged works (halidom_wonder_club, russell_my_shipmate, marcet_berthas_visit, braddon_fatal_three, 210k–356k tokens) exceed a single context. Numeric-fact coverage is near-complete via whole-file sweeps, but narrative context for large stretches is unverified. All 24 affected questions carry a review_flags entry saying exactly what was and was not read. Their spans are verbatim, unique and correctly separated like any other — but a restatement elsewhere that would make an answer ambiguous cannot be ruled out.
Separation threshold differs from v2. v3 requires multihop/computation spans ≥10% of the text apart (v2's README claims ≥20%). Note also that separation is normalised by total text length, so the merged multi-volume works score lower for the same absolute gap.
No packed eval contexts. v2 shipped eval/ with pre-packed k-distractor contexts. v3 ships sources and questions only; packing is pending a decision about the new long tail (six sources now exceed v2's longest novel, up to 355,814 tokens).
Question authoring is model-drafted. Every question was drafted by a model that read the source, then screened by a deterministic validator. review_flags records anything the drafter or the validator flagged.

Layout

data/v3/
  sources/stories.jsonl        125 records, full text in `text`
  sources/manifest.json        the same records without text
  sources/structure.json       per-source chapter offsets and counts
  sources/provenance.md        Gutenberg ids, licensing, counts
  sources/multilingual_pairs.json   3 verified EN↔FI translation pairs
  sources/{retrieval,multihop,computation}.jsonl   756 questions
  sources/stories/<id>.md      per-source text
  by_story/<id>/               story.md + questions.jsonl + rendered README
  verify_report.md

MM Long Storytelling Bench — v2

⚠️ Draft / preview. Every item ships status: "draft". The dataset is structurally verified (every supporting quote is a verbatim substring of its source; every multi-hop and computation item aggregates over passages ≥20% of the book apart; no question contains a word distinctive to its gold novel). It is not yet difficulty-gated — the closed-book G/E/P/S/L evaluation has been run only on a 30-item subset, not the full set. Treat this as a working research preview, not a finished benchmark. A model may never be the sole author or verifier of a benchmark item; a human verification pass is pending.

A long-context reading-comprehension benchmark built on stories — the follow-up to MUDDLE (Algoverse AI Research, in collaboration with researchers from PocketFM). Where MUDDLE tested finding one fact in a pile of research PDFs, this tests whether a model actually follows a story at length.

The core idea

Difficulty comes from aggregation over a long work, not from unseen text. A model may know a novel's plot; it does not know how many days separate two dated events, or what three sums scattered across the book add to. The benchmark is deliberately built on novels a model may have read — the guarantee is at the level of the question, not the story: each item is designed to be un-answerable without reading, and difficulty is carried by counting, state-tracking, interval arithmetic, and event ordering that no plot summary records.

Sources — 60 obscure full-length public-domain novels

4,852,314 words / 6,452,749 tokens across 30 authors, each novel 50k–202k tokens. These are obscure genre novels (Edwardian mystery, adventure, romance) by prolific but now-forgotten authors — chosen so the model has not absorbed a study-guide apparatus (Wikipedia/SparkNotes chapter summaries, character lists, timelines) that would let it answer an aggregation question from memory. All are US public domain (Project Gutenberg, header / trademark stripped); every author died before 1957. Provenance in data/v2/sources/provenance.md.

The three question types — 354 questions, 118 / 118 / 118

retrieval — the gold novel is identified by a paraphrased trait (never its title or a proper noun from it), then a specific incidental detail is asked. The context holds the gold novel beside a same-author, same-era sibling as a hard negative.
multihop — ≥2 hops, the bridge entity never named in the question; the supporting passages sit ≥20% of the book apart.
computation — aggregation (counting, summing, interval arithmetic, ordering) over ≥2 widely separated regions; no single chapter suffices.

Six questions per novel (2 per type), evenly spread. Multi-hop/computation passage separation: median 55%, up to 98%.

Loading

from datasets import load_dataset

ds  = load_dataset("luoojason/mm-long-storytelling-bench", "v2", split="computation")
src = load_dataset("luoojason/mm-long-storytelling-bench",
                   data_files="data/v2/sources/stories.jsonl", split="train")
text = {s["id"]: s for s in src}   # id -> full novel record

row = ds[0]
row["question"]          # the prompt
row["answers"]           # gold answer(s) as list<str>, e.g. ["20000"]
row["answer_format"]     # "string" | "number" | "list" — how to score
row["document_ids"]      # the packed context, in order (k1: gold + 1 same-author sibling)

# Reconstruct the >=100k-token context deterministically:
context = "\n\n".join(
    f'=== {text[d]["title"]} ===\n\n{text[d]["text"]}' for d in row["document_ids"]
)

The context is not inlined — at k1 each is a whole novel plus a sibling (~~220k tokens), and every novel is the gold of six questions, so inlining would duplicate the 60 novels dozens of times (~~300 MB). The document_ids give the exact packed order; the novels ship once under sources/. Larger distractor sets (k3, k7, all 60 novels ≈ 6.5M tokens) come from the same stories.jsonl with more document_ids; k1 is the config because it is the smallest packing in which every item clears the 100k-token long-context floor.

Score a prediction: for answer_format == "number" compare the number; for "list" require all items; for "string" accept a semantic match (an LLM judge is recommended for free-form answers). Every item is status: "draft" pending human verification.

Raw sources

data/v2/sources/ ships everything for reproduction: the 60 novels (stories.jsonl + one file each under stories/), the questions split by type with answer + reasoning + verbatim supporting spans + measured passage separation, per-novel provenance.md (Gutenberg ids, download counts, word/token/chapter counts), structure.json (chapter offsets), and multilingual_pairs.json (3 verified obscure English↔Finnish same-work translation pairs for a multilingual split).

Prior batch

sourced/ holds an earlier, superseded set of 11 obscure Gutenberg short stories and excerpts. v2 keeps the same obscurity property but uses full-length novels and aggregation questions, which fixes the length and difficulty limitations of that batch.

Licensing & attribution

All source text is US public domain (Project Gutenberg, header/trademark stripped); the curation artifacts are released CC0. Produced by a researcher at Algoverse AI Research, in collaboration with researchers from PocketFM — not a PocketFM product or endorsement.

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