Volume IX contains the nineteenth twentieth and twentyfirst fulllength Thorndyke adventures published in 1938 1940 and 1942 respectively. With each subsequent narrative Thorndykes skills and abilities grown and amaze. The Stoneware Monkey A young doctors encounter with a modern sculptor opens the door to the curious world of art that is terrible and those who seriously promote it anyway as something of value. When the sculptor dies Thorndyke spots the importance of his curious stoneware monk