The Strange Crime of John Boulnois (Penguin Mini Modern Classics) (1914)

by G. K. Chesterton

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One of detective fiction's most idiosyncratic and best-loved characters, G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown is both a diminutive, genial clergyman and a master sleuth. In these two stories involving the ingenious, unobtrusive priest, a murdered man denounces his killer with his dying breaths, and a brilliant French inspector follows a trail of gentil carnage across London.… (more)

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Reporter Calhoun Kidd of the Western Sun is off to interview John Boulnois, a philisopher, at his home, Grey Cottage at the edge of Pendragon Park. But he comes across a murder, but who is the guilty party. Father Brown investigates.
Anpther enjoyable short mystery (

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The Strange Crime of John Boulnois [short fiction] by G.K. Chesterton

The Blue Cross [short story] by G.K. Chesterton

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Contains the short stories "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" and "The Blue Cross".

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One of detective fiction's most idiosyncratic and best-loved characters, G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown is both a diminutive, genial clergyman and a master sleuth. In these two stories involving the ingenious, unobtrusive priest, a murdered man denounces his killer with his dying breaths, and a brilliant French inspector follows a trail of gentil carnage across London.

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