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The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much
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This version of The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1922 edition.
The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published by Cassell and company in 1922. The book contains 12 stories, the first 8 of which are about The Man Who Knew Too Much, while the final four are individual stories with separate heroes/detectives.
The Stories:
The Man Who Knew Too Much:
The face in the target
The vanishing prince
The soul of the schoolboy
The bottomless well
The hole in the wall
The fad of the fisherman
The fool of the family
The vengeance of the statue
Other stories:
The trees of pride
The garden of smoke
The five of swords
The tower of treason
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" refers to the main protagonist of the first 8 stories, Horne Fisher. In the final story, "The Vengeance of the Statue", Fisher notes: "The Prime Minister is my father's friend. The Foreign Minister married my sister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is my first cousin." Due to such intimate relationships with the leading political figures in the land, Fisher knows too much about the private politics behind the public politics of the day. This knowledge is a burden to him in the eight stories, because he is able to uncover the injustices and corruptions of the murders in each story, but in most cases the real killer gets away with the killing because to bring him openly to justice would create a greater chaos: starting a war, inciting Irish rebellions, or removing public faith in the government.
Fisher is accompanied in the stories by a polticial journalist, Harold March, but rather than being his "Watson", the stories are all written in the third person. Less a clumsy foil to reflect Fisher's brilliance, March is more of a sounding board for Fisher to discuss Chesterton's paradoxes and philosophy. Apart from the first story, in which March meets Fisher, and the final story, the stories have no other internal chronology, and so can be read in any order.
The other four stories are similar in style and format to the main eight, as well as to Chesterton's Father Brown stories, but each is unconnected, with its own protagonist. All the stories are around 20 to 30 pages in length, except The Trees of Pride, which is 67 pages long in the first edition.
The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published by Cassell and company in 1922. The book contains 12 stories, the first 8 of which are about The Man Who Knew Too Much, while the final four are individual stories with separate heroes/detectives.
The Stories:
The Man Who Knew Too Much:
The face in the target
The vanishing prince
The soul of the schoolboy
The bottomless well
The hole in the wall
The fad of the fisherman
The fool of the family
The vengeance of the statue
Other stories:
The trees of pride
The garden of smoke
The five of swords
The tower of treason
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" refers to the main protagonist of the first 8 stories, Horne Fisher. In the final story, "The Vengeance of the Statue", Fisher notes: "The Prime Minister is my father's friend. The Foreign Minister married my sister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is my first cousin." Due to such intimate relationships with the leading political figures in the land, Fisher knows too much about the private politics behind the public politics of the day. This knowledge is a burden to him in the eight stories, because he is able to uncover the injustices and corruptions of the murders in each story, but in most cases the real killer gets away with the killing because to bring him openly to justice would create a greater chaos: starting a war, inciting Irish rebellions, or removing public faith in the government.
Fisher is accompanied in the stories by a polticial journalist, Harold March, but rather than being his "Watson", the stories are all written in the third person. Less a clumsy foil to reflect Fisher's brilliance, March is more of a sounding board for Fisher to discuss Chesterton's paradoxes and philosophy. Apart from the first story, in which March meets Fisher, and the final story, the stories have no other internal chronology, and so can be read in any order.
The other four stories are similar in style and format to the main eight, as well as to Chesterton's Father Brown stories, but each is unconnected, with its own protagonist. All the stories are around 20 to 30 pages in length, except The Trees of Pride, which is 67 pages long in the first edition.
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