The Blue Cross (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- First Published: 1911
- Type of Plot: Mystery and detective
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Father Brown, Aristide Valentin, Flambeau
- Genres: Short fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Police, Religion, Mental illness, Detectives, London, Theft, Catholics or Catholic Church, Private investigators, Priests, Theology
- Locales: London, England
The Story
Aristide Valentin, the chief of the Paris police, arrives from Holland by boat at the English port of Harwich. He is pursuing an infamous thief and con man named Flambeau, to whom Parisian reporters attribute numerous mysterious and unsolved crimes committed in the French capital. Flambeau has become somewhat of a sympathetic rogue in the eyes of certain Frenchmen, and Valentin definitely wants to arrest this troublemaker, who has managed to avoid arrest by the French, Belgian, and Dutch police. Valentin's chances of catching Flambeau seem slim, however, because all...
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