“If you meet a member of the privileged club “Twelve Faithful Anglers” who has arrived at the Vernoy Hotel for the annual club dinner, then when he takes off...

“Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) is the author of a series of detective stories about the shrewd priest Brown. If Father Brown takes up the investigatio...

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874–1936) is a recognized classic of English literature, one of the most brilliant writers of the first half of the 20th century....

“The sweet shop on the corner of two steep streets in Camden Town glowed like the end of a dying cigar in the cool blue twilight. Or rather, like a dying fir...

The heroes of Conan Doyle's stories of the pre-Holmes period, and Chesterton's Father Brown, a padre in a wide-brimmed hat, and the first lady detective Love...

“When Flambeau took leave from his office in Westminster, he spent the month in a sailing boat, so small that it was most often used as a rowing boat. In add...

“The mysterious companion of the Thames, a sparkling haze, both dense and transparent at once, brightened and sparkled more and more as the sun rose over Wes...