The paradoxes of Mr. Pond / G.K. Chesterton ; with a new introduction by Martin Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Dover books on literature and drama

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pond, Mr. (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Pond, Mr. (Fictitious character).

Detective and mystery stories, English.

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories, English.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 126 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Paradoxes of Mister Pond.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1990.

Summary:

"The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond is Chesterton's last work of fiction, but by no means his least. It consists of eight suspenseful stories featuring one of Chesterton's most delightful amateur sleuths, a deceptively "mild little man" who knows thoroughly the ways of the world and possesses the uncanny ability to make shrewd deductions and accurate intuitive guesses. Mr. Pond is also fond of making casual remarks that seem to be logical contradictions. Behind each of these paradoxes lies a mysterious and lighthearted tale superbly told."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

The three horsemen of apocalypse

The crime of Captain Gahagan

When doctors agree

Pond the pantaloon

The unmentionable man

Ring of lovers

The terrible troubadour

A tall story.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Dodd, Mead, 1937.

ISBN:

0486261859

9780486261850

OCLC:

19920129

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