{"product_id":"the-man-who-knew-too-much","title":"The Man Who Knew Too Much","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy G. K. Chesterton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThe association of G. K. Chesterton \u003c\/span\u003eand the subject of mysteries results \u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eimmediately in the realization of Father Brown, his beloved detective-priest who first appeared in 1910. Yet Father Brown is not the totality of Chesterton’s contribution to the great genre of detective stories. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Knew Too Much \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003econtains nine additional offerings of the suspenseful puzzlement and paradox which could spring only from the mind of Chesterton. Eight of these feature Horne Fisher, the man who knew too much, and his “Watson,” the journalist Harold March, and their world of upper-class Britain which witnesses to the very worst and very best of mankind. In the last, a four-part novella entitled “The Trees of Pride” which appeared only in the American edition of the volume, a Cornish squire wagers his life on a walk through a fantastical forest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe aim of a mystery story, as of every other story\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eand every other mystery, is not darkness but light.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(G. K. Chesterton)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFor Chesterton, mystery stories involve the two simple realities of truth and light, and any story that shirks the truth or shuns the light is not worthy of its title. “Glowing with divine fire and glittering with the tinsel sheath of paradox”—in the words of A. D. Douglas—\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Knew Too Much \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eseeks the light at every turn and embraces the truth at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGilbert Keith Chesterton\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(1874–1936) was an immensely prolific English writer, poet, and journalist. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he is best known for his in­fluential works in apologetics, such as \u003cem\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHeretics\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Everlasting Man\u003c\/em\u003e; his fascinating novels, like \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Napoleon of Notting Hill\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eManalive\u003c\/em\u003e; and his ingenious Father Brown detective stories..\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685954222\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44794796966023,"sku":"978-1-68595-422-2","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/1082\/0999\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1337_9c248123-ee1e-4922-887b-50983debd170.jpg?v=1780659798","url":"https:\/\/bings.shop\/products\/the-man-who-knew-too-much","provider":"BINGS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}