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Father Brown is petting a dog, next to a young man named Fiennes. The young man informs him of a recent murder and shows him a newspaper clipping describing the details of the case. Father Brown on his 5th adventure. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer,philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the «prince of paradox». Time magazine observed of his writing style: «Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.» In Public Domain First published 1923 Ovi eBook Publishing 2022 Read it online HERE ! Or enjoy reading it online & downloading it as PDF HERE ! All eBooks and downloads are FREE !

"Wych Street! Wych Street be damned! If he said Wych Street was in the moon, you should have agreed with him." There is no such thing as a typical Aumonier story or a typical Aumonier character. Some of his stories are comedies; some are moving stories of missed opportunity or loss. Some are war stories. He wrote with equal empathy about the very poor, the very rich, men, women, movers and shakers, hobos, pompous husbands, shallow wives, war heroes, deserters, idealists, thieves. All his stories have in common is a great ease of style and "a sense of line that most of us should envy," as Galsworthy put it. Even Aumonier's least significant stories—ones that he wrote purely as entertainments—are written with remarkable fluidity and wit. In Public Domain First published 1929 Ovi eBook Publishing 2022 Read it online HERE ! Or enjoy reading it online & downloading it as PDF HERE ! All eBooks and downloads are FREE !

As it was an excursion, the Fall of Rome carried a band and booths laden with many delicious superfluities such as pop-corn and the misleading compound known as "salt-water taffy." Mrs. Turtle brought Romeo to the excursion with the same assurance that a woman of another stamp brings her Pekingese dog to a restaurant table. While the Fall of Rome sounded a warning whistle, and hawsers were loosed she adjusted her veil and took cognizance of fellow passengers. In spite of wealth and "owning her own automobile," Mrs. Turtle's fetish was democratic popularity. She greeted one after another. In Public Domain First published 1917 Ovi eBook Publishing 2022 Read it online HERE ! Or enjoy reading it online & downloading it as PDF HERE ! All eBooks and downloads are FREE !

She'd paid good money to see the inevitable... and then had to work to make it happen! There were two important things—one, that she was very old; two, that Mr. Thirkell was taking her to God. For hadn't he patted her hand and said: "Mrs. Bellowes, we'll take off into space in my rocket, and go to find Him together." And that was how it was going to be. Oh, this wasn't like any other group Mrs. Bellowes had ever joined. In her fervor to light a path for her delicate, tottering feet, she had struck matches down dark alleys, and found her way to Hindu mystics who floated their flickering, starry eyelashes over crystal balls. She had walked on the meadow paths with ascetic Indian philosophers imported by daughters-in-spirit of Madame Blavatsky. She had made pilgrimages to California's stucco jungles to hunt the astrological seer in his natural habitat. She had even consented to signing away the rights to one of her homes in order to be taken into the shouting...

"Fritz Bagger had just been admitted to the bar. He had come home and entered his room, seeking rest. All his mental faculties were now relaxed after their recent exertion, and a long-restrained power was awakened. He had reached a crisis in life: the future lay before him,—the future, the future! What was it to be? He was twenty-four years old, and could turn himself whichever way he pleased, let fancy run to any line of the compass." Meïr Aron Goldschmidt born in Vordingborg, Denmark, October 26, 1819 and died in August 15, 1887. He was a Danish publisher, journalist and novelist. He belonged to a strictly Orthodox Jewish family of merchant and he was the founding editor of the satirical and political magazine Corsaren. Translated by Carl Larsen. In Public Domain First published 1870 Ovi eBook Publishing 2023 Read it online HERE ! Or enjoy reading it online & downloading it as PDF HERE ! All eBooks and downloads are FREE !

Lenton Croft is the country seat (near Twyford) of Sir James Norris. Meeting Hewitt at the train station, Sir James outlines the case: three times in the last year, female guests have had valuable jewellery stolen from them. Each time the windows to the room in question were only slightly opened or closed altogether, or people were in a nearby room. Each time a spent match was found just where the jewellery went missing. A Martin Hewitt, investigator, mystery. Arthur George Morrison, born 1 November 1863, died 4 December 1945, was an English writer and journalist known for realistic novels, for stories about working-class life in the East End of London, and for detective stories featuring a specific detective, Martin Hewitt. He also collected Japanese art and published several works on the subject. Much of his collection entered the British Museum, through purchase and bequest. Morrison's best known work of fiction is his novel A Child of the Jago In Public Domain First Published 1...