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Matheson forces them to hand over the thesis and goes off to find Isaac. Margot and Benjamin escape in the basket lift and Dorothy and Tom chase after Matheson's bunch. They find one of her men corned by a couple of angry pigs and retrieve the book from him and head back to the lift. Halfway down, they are menaced by a helicopter, which they stave off by throwing the thesis at it. The thesis gets shredded in the blades and the helicopter crashes to its destruction.
 
Matheson forces them to hand over the thesis and goes off to find Isaac. Margot and Benjamin escape in the basket lift and Dorothy and Tom chase after Matheson's bunch. They find one of her men corned by a couple of angry pigs and retrieve the book from him and head back to the lift. Halfway down, they are menaced by a helicopter, which they stave off by throwing the thesis at it. The thesis gets shredded in the blades and the helicopter crashes to its destruction.
  
Back at Patrice's, they own up to the loss of her thesis, but Patrice is unexpectedly relieved, now that the final copy, which she had kept for herself against all the rules, has been destroyed. Tying up loose ends, Dorothy wonders if it wasn't Bancroft who stole Tom's notebook after all, but one of the monks, alerted to Tom's presence by another shadowy figure from Tom's past, such as [[The Hon Sholto Chelford-Bickerton]], whose name just happens to start with S. Did he survive the sinking of [[The Autonomous Bailiwick of Channellia|Channellia]]? However, this speculation is brought to a halt by the discovery of a note from Katya, indicating that her uncle [[Arkady Morozov|Arkady]] wants her to call him. What on earth can he want?
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Back at Patrice's, they own up to the loss of her thesis, but Patrice is unexpectedly relieved, now that the final copy, which she had kept for herself against all the rules, has been destroyed. Tying up loose ends, Dorothy wonders if it wasn't Bancroft who stole Tom's notebook after all, but one of the monks, alerted to Tom's presence by another shadowy figure from Tom's past, such as [[The Honourable Sholto Chelford-Bickerton]], whose name just happens to start with S. Did he survive the sinking of Channellia? However, this speculation is brought to a halt by the discovery of a note from Katya, indicating that her uncle [[Arkady Morozov|Arkady]] wants her to call him. What on earth can he want?
  
 
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The Riddle of the Fractal Monks  
The Riddle of the Fractal Monks.jpg
First edition
Author Jonathan Pinnock
Cover artist kid-ethic
Language English
Publisher Farrago Books
Publication date 2020
ISBN 978-1-78842-216-1
Preceded by A Question of Trust
Followed by Bad Day in Minsk

The Riddle of the Fractal Monks is a book by Jonathan Pinnock. It is the third in the Mathematical Mystery series and was published by Farrago Books in April 2020.

Blurb

A mystery lands – literally – at Tom Winscombe’s feet, and another riotous mathematical adventure begins…

Tom Winscombe and Dorothy Chan haven’t managed to go on a date for some time, so it’s a shame that their outing to a Promenade Concert is cut short when a mysterious cowled figure plummets from the gallery to the floor of the arena close to where they are standing. But when they find out who he was, all thoughts of romance fly out of the window.

Just who are the Fractal Monks, and what does Isaac, last of the Vavasors and custodian of the papers of famed dead mathematical geniuses Archie and Pye, want with them? How will other figures from the past also demand a slice of the action? And what other mysteries are there lurking at the bottom of the sea and at the top of mountains? The answers lie in The Riddle of the Fractal Monks.

Critical Reception

The reception to the book was generally favourable, with one reviewer on Amazon comparing it to P.G.Wodehouse.

Summary of Plot