Oh, and none of the villains disguises themself as a Chinese laundryman in order to kidnap heiresses and sell them into slavery overseas. There's precisely one heiress held against her will in all the stories, and the circumstances aren't remotely comparable. Neither does Mr Reeder feel it necessary to wear the villains' shirts when the time comes for him to arrest them.

Somehow I'm not as surprised as I should be.

And re. the last bit, LOL! And Minty is obviously more easily surprised than she should be.