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9781564784551

Mystery Of The Sardine Pa

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  • ISBN13:

    9781564784551

  • ISBN10:

    156478455X

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2006-09-17
  • Publisher: JOHN MUIR

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When an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's backyard-paralyzing the professor and killing his guest-we enter the mystery of the sardine. It is a mystery whose unwitting detectives are not trench-coated sleuths but, rather, include a twelve-year-old Oxonian mathematician named Ian, author of Euclid Was an Ass; his mother, Miss Prentice, a palmist; his beloved, Emma, daughter of the professor, for whom he names his most important postulate; a bureaucrat, Joseph Kszak, dubbed the Minister of Imponderabilia; the Great Man's widow and his secretary, affectionately known as the Dancing Ladies; and Lady Cooper, the aging daughter of a famous Polish general. The clues they unearth-drawing on philosophical logic, the occult, intuition, and everything in between-lead them far from the tiny seacoast town with the exploding poodle: we find them hunting in Majorca, Rome, Warsaw, and London. The solution ultimately lies, however, at the furthest and most magical reaches of reason, which can only be deduced by this mystery's most visionary detectives. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

The Colour of his Eyesp. 3
The True Earthp. 15
The Black Poodlep. 22
The Ambassador, the Admiral & a Third Milieup. 28
The Way of Not Answering Questionsp. 34
The Wheelchairp. 42
The Philosopher & the Mathematicianp. 48
The Dancing Ladiesp. 60
Captain Casanovap. 66
The Cedarwood Casketp. 87
The Minister of Imponderabiliap. 100
No Axioms are Immortalp. 128
Occam's Razorp. 143
Euclid was an Assp. 154
As Old as Dustp. 162
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full...p. 174
Coda Not a Single Sardine for his Footnotep. 189
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