About This Book

..."it will be more legal for us to leave the body as it is until the police are informed. In fact, I think it will be well if nobody except the police is informed. Don't be surprised if I seem to be keeping it dark from some of our neighbors round here." Then, as if prompted to regularize his rather abrupt confidence, he said: "I've come down to see my cousin at Torwood; my name is Horne Fisher" ...

About G. K. Chesterton

During his lifetime, English author and journalist Gilbert Keith Chesterton was known for his writings in the fields of social criticism, literary criticism, and, later in his life, religious argument. Brilliantly intellectual, he was part of a literary circle that included such diverse characters as Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Hillaire Belloc, and Max Beerbohm. He championed political integrity and in the last years before his death was deeply critical of the rising Nazi regime in Germany. But he is probably best remembered as a mystery writer — as the author of this book as well as the "Father Brown" mystery series.