Chesterton's Mysteries

The final volume of the special Leonaur six volume Chesterton mystery collection Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography, journalism and philosophy. Great writers have no influence over those parts of their work which posterity decides is most significant or will be best remembered, in Chesterton’s case-in the minds of many-he will forever be remembered as the creator of the little Roman Catholic priest-detective, Father Brown. The vitality of that character has endured, evergreen, never losing its charm. Chesterton, was a lover of detective and mystery fiction and his own contribution to the genre extends far beyond the Father Brown stories. Leonaur has collected Chesterton’s fabulous, intriguing and entertaining mysteries-in order of original book publication-into six substantial volumes to enable his many aficionados to own and read them in either softcover or hardback with dust jacket for collectors. This collection is the ideal way to possess these essential books of crime, mystery and detection and no enthusiast’s library will be complete without them.

In this final volume of Chesterton’s collected mysteries readers will enjoy the last of the Father Brown collections-‘The Scandal of Father Brown’, with nine more great Father Brown cases including ‘The Vampire of the Village’. The seven stories of ‘The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond’ are followed by six bonus tales: ‘The Donnington Affair’, ‘The Man who Shot the Fox’, ‘The Five of Swords’, ‘The Tower of Treason’, ‘The White Pillars of Murder’ and ‘The Garden of Smoke’. Simply essential!