- Fiction, English Detective and mystery stories, Aristocracy (Social class), Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Series of stories featuring world-weary government employee Horne Fisher and crusading journalist Harold March. Mysteries that are reflections on moral ambiguity in politics in the British Empire on the eve of World War I
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- Author
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- First published
- 1922
- Pages
- 156
- Publisher
- Franklin Classics, Xist Publishing, Lulu.com
- Editions
- 644
- Language
- French, Spanish, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9781981195404
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“Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park.”
**Gilbert Keith Chesterton** was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist.
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