Research Catalog

Title

The mystery of the sardine / Stefan Themerson.

Author

Themerson, Stefan

Publication

Normal [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

193 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

• When an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's back yard-paralyzing the professor and killing his guest-the "mystery of the sardine" begins. Its solution will involve such unwitting detectives as a twelve-year-old mathematician, his mother, his beloved, a palmist named Miss Prentice, and a bureaucrat dubbed the Minister of Imponderabilia.
• The clues they unearth-drawing on logic, the occult, intuition, and everything in between-lead them far away from the tiny seaside town where they begin. We follow them to Majorca, Rome, Warsaw, and London, but in the end, the solution lies beyond even the furthest and most magical reaches of reason.

Series Statement

British literature series

Uniform Title

British literature series

Subject

• Detective and mystery stories

Genre/Form

Detective and mystery stories.

Note

• "First published in the U.K. by Faber and Faber, 1986"--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 The Colour of his Eyes 3 -- 2 The True Earth 15 -- 3 The Black Poodle 22 -- 4 The Ambassador, the Admiral & a Third Milieu 28 -- 5 The Way of Not Answering Questions 34 -- 6 The Wheelchair 42 -- 7 The Philosopher & the Mathematician 48 -- 8 The Dancing Ladies 60 -- 9 Captain Casanova 66 -- 10 The Cedarwood Casket 87 -- 11 The Minister of Imponderabilia 100 -- 12 No Axioms are Immortal 128 -- 13 Occam's Razor 143 -- 14 Euclid was an Ass 154 -- 15 As Old as Dust 162 -- 16 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full... 174 -- Coda Not a Single Sardine for his Footnote 189.

ISBN

• 156478455X
• 9781564784551

LCCN

^^2006017024

OCLC

• 69241522
• SCSB-11789678

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library