G.K. Chesterton 
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond [EPUB ebook] 

‚The paradoxes of Mr. Pond‘ is a collection of police stories written by G.K. Chesterton and published posthumously (1936).All the stories are starring Mr. Pond, an ordinary man who, however, sometimes surprises friends and colleagues with some rather paradoxical and outrageous statements. Gradually, the reader will discover that Mr. Pond tells stories that are dramatic, audacious, interesting, adventurous, perhaps because of his lack of audacity in his real life.Mr. Pond can therefore be called a tragicomic character …