THE PARADISE OF THIEVES A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Father Brown is traveling in Italy when he comes across a strange situation. An English family on vacation is in the guidance of a local courier, and the daughter is also flirting with an italian poet who appears to be something of a lothario. There is a true thief in their midst but it will be difficult to figure out who it is- we'll leave it up to you.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:33.8 | This is your host John Hagadorn. |
| 0:35.6 | Today, another G.K. Chesterton mystery, The Paradise of Thieves. |
| 0:40.8 | The Paradise of Thieves was published in the Wisdom of Father Brown. |
| 0:44.0 | This mystery is a real cliffhanger. |
| 0:48.0 | The great Muscari, most original of the young Tuscan poets, |
| 0:52.0 | walked swiftly into his favorite restaurant, which |
| 0:54.3 | overlooked the Mediterranean, was covered by an awning and fenced by little lemon and orange trees. |
| 1:00.9 | Waders in white aprons were already laying out on white tables the insignia of an early and elegant lunch, |
| 1:06.0 | and this seemed to increase a satisfaction that already touched the top of swagger. |
| 1:11.0 | Muscari had an eagle rose like Dante. His hair and Nakerchep were dark and flowing. |
| 1:17.0 | He carried a black cloak, and he might almost have carried a black mask so much that he bear with him a sort of Benetian melodrama. |
| 1:25.1 | He acted as if a troubadour had still a definite social office, like a bishop. |
| 1:30.0 | He went as near as a century permitted to walking the world literally like Don Juan with |
| 1:34.6 | rapir and guitar. |
| 1:36.9 | For he never traveled without a case of swords, with which he had fought many brilliant |
| 1:40.9 | duels, or without a corresponding case for his mandolin, with which |
| 1:45.2 | he had actually serenated Miss Ethel Harrogate, the highly conventional daughter of a Yorkshire |
| 1:50.0 | banker on a holiday. Yet he was neither a charlatan nor a child but a hot |
| 1:56.0 | logical Latin who liked a certain thing and was it. His poetry was as |
| 2:00.8 | straightforward as anyone else's prose. |
| 2:03.6 | He desired fame or wine, or the beauty of women with a torrid directness inconceivable |
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