“If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.”

—  G. K. Chesterton, book The Secret of Father Brown

The Secret of Father Brown (1927) The Song of the Flying Fish
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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