G.K. Chesterton was one of Britain's most popular writers and for good reason, he was well versed in the use of the English language, he was full of insights and brilliant reflections on life and people, and he was down to earth and not pedantic. It is obvious that he enjoyed writing as his writing is so enjoyable. Chesterton wrote many series of detective stories likely as his bread and butter work that sold, always telling tales of murder that contain unusual events that happen to unique individuals with interesting backgrounds.
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" is a series of detective stories with a slightly quirky detective who's a bit of an idiot savant and an outsider, but being highly connected through noble families he knows everyone in the British ruling class, and is freely admitted to the inner circle of the rich and powerful wherever he goes. Our hero befriends a young reporter who accompanies him and who acts as "Dr. Watson" to "Sherlock Holmes", the man that asks questions about the events being investigated so our hero can explain to the reader the development of his deductions as they unfold and the stories evolve.
These are good detective stories, nicely developed and with full descriptive exposition, the reader is right there following the action. Chesterton knows how to tell a good story, and reading him today shows how wonderfully the English language was used to express ideas and entertainment to those with reading skills, long before television.
In this series of stories, in the last chapter, our hero saves the British Empire, a remarkable feat best experienced in print and not in person.
Chesterton was a prolific writer and all his work suffers from greatness, you can't go wrong reading old G.K.
(Sorry, Amazon, but readers can find much of Chesterton's long out of copyright work on "gutenberg.org" available for a free download).
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