The Blue Cross is the first Father Brown short story by Chesterton, who went on to write an entire series of Father Brown Mysteries. In this story, Aristide Valentin, head of the Paris Police, is on the trail of the world's most famous criminal, Flambeau, who is a master of disguise, and may appear to be anyone. Valentin deduces that Flambeau is going to try and steal The Blue Cross, a priceless silver cross with precious blue stones. Valentin must stop him, but in this case it is actually Father Brown who is the better detective.
The G.K. Chesterton Classics Collection. Detective, Religion, Stories, Poetry. Illustrated : The Innocence of Father Brown, Orthodoxy, The Ballad of the White Horse and others
G.K. Chesterton
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The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems. (100 Books) : The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others
Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton, Montgomery L.M., L. Frank Baum, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Léon Tolstoï, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nikolai Gogol, William Dean Howells, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Harrison Elizabeth, John Milton, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlof, Clement Moore, Henry Van Dyke, Potter Beatrix, Anton Chekhov
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50+ Masterpieces you have to read before you die. Christmas Stories and Poems : A Christmas Carol, A Merry Christmas, A Letter from Santa Claus, Christmas Bells, The Gift of the Magi and others
Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton, Montgomery L.M., Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Léon Tolstoï, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nikolai Gogol, William Dean Howells, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlof, Clement Moore, Henry Van Dyke, Potter Beatrix, O. Henry, Stretton Hesba, Kenneth Grahame, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Alfred Tennyson, Abbie Farwell Brown, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, C. W. Stubbs, Field Eugene, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Topaz McGonagall, Emily Dickinson, L. Frank Baum, Harrison Elizabeth, Anton Chekhov
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