Having been written around 100 years ago, I found the style of writing a bit difficult to follow in some parts although the short stories were very cleverly plotted with vivid descriptive detail. A thinking person's book, which is a nice change to some of the more modern 'action-packed' novels, I...
I feel kind of harsh giving this book 2 stars, since I really enjoyed the first five stories, which were the ones I was reading for university. In fact, I enjoyed them so much I decided to carry on reading this 700-odd page anthology, even though the required reading for the module was only the f...
The first time I picked up this book, I was working in a library. I flipped it open and found this conversation:". . . But the cold fact remains: imprudent marriages do lead to long unhappiness and disappointment - you've got used to your drinks and things - I shan't be pretty much longer-""Impru...
Chesterton was a contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; and though he created his principal fictional sleuth, Father Brown, after Doyle had written the bulk of the Holmes canon, he can also claim a formative role (though not nearly so important as Doyle's) in the shaping of the genre. Father Bro...