In The Hooligan

Poul Anderson's eight Captain Flandry instalments divide themselves into four pairs:

"Honorable Enemies" refers back to "Tiger By The Tail";

"The Plague of Masters" refers back to "A Message in Secret";

"Hunters of the Sky Cave" refers back to "The Game of Glory," which also refers back to "Honorable Enemies";

A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows refers back to "The Warriors from Nowhere."

From this, we can deduce a reading order.

Flandry's Shalmuan servant, Chives, appears only in:

"Hunters of the Sky Cave"

"The Warriors from Nowhere"

A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows

- and in the Admiral Flandry novel, A Stone In Heaven.

Flandry's private space speedster, the Hooligan, appears in "Hunters...," A Knight... and A Stone... and "...his private speedster..." is mentioned without being named in "The Warriors..."

In three works, the Hooligan departs from Earth bearing Flandry, Chives and a (different) woman.

"The Hooligan snaked out of Terran sky..."

-"Hunters of the Sky Cave," VII, p. 196.

"The Hooligan sprang from Terra, pierced the sky..."

-A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, IV, p. 392.

"Hooligan raised her lean form off the spacefield and hit the sky..."

-Poul Anderson, A Stone In Heaven IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, June 2012), pp. 1-188 AT VI, p. 62.

"Flandry and Chives in the Hooligan" could have become a longer sub-series. Of the three women, Flandry:

has a casual affair with Catherine Kittredge;

becomes engaged to Kossara Vymezal (but she is assassinated):

marries Miriam Abrams.