The Stoneware Monkey

440 pages. Includes catalog of Dover publications. Black pictorial wraps with red and white lettering. Owner's name in small ink writing top of front inside cover. No other defects.Very attractive square tight little read book. Two of the Freeman's best detective novels featuring Dr. Thorndyke, published in 1939 & 1936 respectively. A new introduction has been written specially for this Dover edition by E. F. Bleiler. The reader has the opportunity to watch Thorndyke and Polton, his ingenius artificer, conducdt their investigations. The Stoneware Monkey is one of Dr. Freeman's most ingenious novels, with a range of particularly fascinating characters and introduces a note of humor in Freeman's consideration of modern art. Tn the Penrose Mystery, which has never been well known in America, shows Thorndyke exercising his remarkable ingenuity in an archeological mystery.