THE EYE OF APOLLO- A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 12 November 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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When Father brown accompanies his good friend Flambeau to see his new office location (Flambeau is a reformed jewel thief now self-employed as a detective) only to be present during a grisly death (murder?) in the building.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Oh, yeah. |
| 0:23.0 | the day. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, Oh, Oh, The Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:46.3 | the one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host |
| 0:50.1 | John Hagenorn today on the great father Brown story from G. K. Chesterton. This one's called The |
| 0:56.2 | Eye of Apollo. That singular smoky sparkle at once a confusion and a transparency, which is the strange secret of the Thames, was changing more and more from its gray to its glittering extreme as the sun climbed to the zenith over Westminster, and two men crossed Westminster |
| 1:15.6 | Bridge. |
| 1:17.5 | One man was very tall and the other very short. |
| 1:20.9 | They might even have been fantastically compared to the arrogant clock tower of Parliament |
| 1:25.2 | and the humbler humped shoulders of the Abbey, for the short man was in clerical dress. |
| 1:30.5 | The official description of the tall man was M. Erkewel, |
| 1:35.0 | Flambeau, private detective, and he was going to his new offices in a new pile of |
| 1:40.4 | flats facing the Abbey entrance. The official description of the short man was the |
| 1:45.7 | Reverend Jay Brown attached to St. Francis Javier's Church, Camberwell, and he was coming |
| 1:52.0 | from a Camberwell deathbed to see the new offices of his friend. |
| 1:57.6 | The building was American in its skyscraping altitude, an American also in the oil deliberation of its machinery of telephones and lifts. |
| 2:06.4 | But it was barely finished and still understaffed. |
| 2:09.5 | Only three tenants had moved in. |
| 2:11.6 | The office just above Plambau was occupied as also was the office just below him |
| 2:16.3 | the two floors above that and the three floors below were entirely bare. |
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