Dornford's Discrepancies

Dornford Yates' mega-series comprises:

10 Berry Books, narrated by Boy Pleydell;
8 Chandos Books, narrated by Richard Chandos;
maybe 13 other works with overlapping characters.

The Pleydell's cousin, Jonah, and Chandos' friend, Mansel, are the same person;

Chandos appears in ten novels and narrates nine although only eight are listed as "the Chandos Books" because the ninth that he narrates features a different central character;

according to the Chandos Books, Chandos not only narrates but also writes these eight volumes as true accounts of his adventures whereas, according to some installments of the Berry series, Boy Pleydell writes the Chandos Books as works of fiction;

the second Chandos Book, Perishable Goods, makes no sense as a work written and published by Chandos because it reveals the secret affair between Jonathan Mansel and Adele Pleydell and even ends by saying the Jonah and Adele have successfully kept this secret - even though Chandos now publishes it!;

by contrast, the sixth Chandos Book, An Eye For A Tooth, should have been the second but Chandos was unable to write it earlier until a certain (other) lady had died;

Chandos conceals the identity of the villainess of the fifth Chandos Book, She Fell Among Thieves, but does not conceal it very well because we are told that -

her first name is "Vanity";
her nickname is "Vanity Fair";
she was married three times and thus had four surnames;
her husbands were Russian, American and Spanish;
her maiden name was "Blanche";
her second married surname was "Brooch."

Chandos and Mansel have to tell Falcon of Scotland Yard of their adventures even though Chandos has supposedly published his accounts of many of these adventures.