THE FLYING STARS A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY by G.K. CHESTERTON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 16 October 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The story takes place at an English manor home at Christmastime, where family and friends are gathering to celebrate the season. Father Brown is a close friend of the family and present as well when the wealthy godfather arrives with a rare gift of three diamonds for the young lady of the manor. Soon a masquerade play takes place and the godfather is shocked to find the diamonds missing. Father Brown, a quiet and unassuming little clergyman with the instincts of a detective, has some ideas about what may have transpired, and soon finds himself having a friendly counsel under the trees outside with Flambeau, a notorious jewel thief who appears in many of the Father Brown mysteries.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host John Hagdorn. Today, another |
| 0:36.4 | Father Brown mystery from G. K. Chesterton was an English poet, journalist, orator, theologian, an art critic, referred to as |
| 0:46.6 | The Prince of Paradox. |
| 0:48.7 | He's also known for his popular detective short stories written between 1910 and 1936 featuring the Roman Catholic |
| 0:55.6 | priest and crime sleuth Father Brown. Today the Flying Stars of Father Brown |
| 1:01.7 | Mystery by G.K. Chesterton. |
| 1:04.8 | The Flying Stars was published in Chesterton's collection, The Innocence of Father |
| 1:08.7 | Brown in 1911. |
| 1:11.2 | And now our story. The most beautiful crime I ever committed, |
| 1:16.0 | Flembeau would say in his highly moral old age, |
| 1:19.0 | was also, by a singular coincidence, my last last it was committed at Christmas as an artist |
| 1:26.4 | I had always attempted to provide crimes suitable to the special season or |
| 1:30.4 | landscapes in which I found myself choosing this or that terrors or garden for a catastrophe as if for a statutory group. |
| 1:38.0 | Thus squire should be swundled in long rooms paneled with oak, while Jews, on the other hand, should rather find |
| 1:45.0 | themselves unexpectedly penniless among the lights and screens of the cafe reish. |
| 1:49.2 | Thus, in England, if I wish to relieve a dean of his riches, which is not so easy as you might suppose. |
| 1:56.0 | I wish to frame him, if I make myself clear, in the green lawns and grey towers of some cathedral town. |
| 2:03.0 | Similarly, in France, |
| 2:05.0 | when I had got money out of a rich and wicked peasant, |
| 2:08.0 | which is almost impossible, |
| 2:10.0 | it gratified me to get his indignant head relieved against a gray line of clipped poplars, |
| 2:15.2 | and those solemn plains of Gaul over which broods the mighty spirit of millet. |
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