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The Mystery of the Skeleton Key by Bernard Capes; G. K. Chesterton (Introduction by); Hugh Lamb (Preface by)
Category: Crime and Thriller | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The fourth in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a tragic accident during a shooting party. As the story switches between Paris and Hampshire, the possibility of it not being an accident seems to grow more likely."The Detective Story Club", launched by Co ...Show more
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton
Category: FICTION | Series: Dover Books on Literature and Drama Ser.
The Napoleon of Notting Hillby Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly-unchanged London in 1984.Though the novel deals with the future, it concentrates not on technology nor on totalitarian government but on a government where ...Show more
The Napoleon of Notting Hill & The Man Who was Thursday by G K Chesterton
Category: Classics
G. K. Chesterton is already a staple in the Hendrickson list with Orthodoxy and Heretics in the Hendrickson Christian Classics series. Known primarily for his non-fiction, he also wrote fiction, and The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who was Thursday are among his best known and most loved novels. ...Show more
The Scandal of Father Brown (#5 Father Brown) by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'It would not be fair to record the adventures of Father Brown, without admitting that he was once involved in a grave scandal...It happened in a picturesque Mexican road-house of rather loose repute...' After many years in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark si ...Show more
The Secret Of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Crime and Thrillers
This is the fourth collection of Father Brown stories featuring the ingenious amateur detective. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton's original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers. 'You see, ...Show more
The Strange Crime of John Boulnois by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The colossus of crime leaned over to the little rustic priest with a sort of sudden interest. 'You have heard of it?' he asked. 'Where have you heard of it?' 'Well, I mustn't tell you his name, of course,' said the little man simply. 'He was a penitent, you know. He had lived prosperously for about twen ...Show more
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Classic
This is the second volume of stories featuring the most unlikely detective in literature - now the basis for a major BBC TV adaptation starring Mark Williams. The ingenious amateur detective Father Brown is put to the test again in this second collection of stories, which sees him solve cases featuring ...Show more
WIT AND WISDOM OF G K CHESTERTON by CHESTERTON G K (ed.) HILLIER BEVIS
Category: Humour
G. K. Chesterton was a consummately witty man. In this new collection, Bevis Hillier draws on his most humorous epigrams and more serious extracts not only from his most popular works, the Father Brown stories, but also his contributions to the Illustrated London News and GK's Weekly, as well as his num ...Show more