THE SECRET GARDEN A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY by G.K. CHESTERTON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Father Brown attends a private party at the home of the city police chief only to find an apparent stranger lying murdered in the chief's walled off back garden.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. This is your host John |
| 0:34.5 | Hagadorn. Today a Father Brown mystery for you called The Secret Garden by |
| 0:40.3 | G. K. Chesterton. |
| 0:50.0 | Aristide Valentin, chief of the Paris police, was late for his dinner, and some of his guests began to arrive before him. |
| 0:53.0 | These were, however, reassured by his confidential servant, Ivan, the old man with a scar, |
| 0:59.0 | and a face almost as gray as his mustaches, |
| 1:02.0 | who always sat at a table in the entrance hall, a hall hung |
| 1:05.4 | with weapons. |
| 1:07.5 | Valentin's house was perhaps as peculiar and celebrated as its master. |
| 1:11.6 | It was an old house with high walls and tall poplars almost overhanging the |
| 1:15.8 | sane. But the oddity and perhaps the police value of its architecture was this, that there |
| 1:22.4 | was no ultimate exit at all except to the |
| 1:24.8 | front door which was guarded by Ivan and the armory. The garden was large and |
| 1:30.3 | elaborate and there were many exits from the house into the garden. But there was no exit |
| 1:35.6 | from the garden into the world outside. All round it ran a tall, smooth, |
| 1:40.9 | unscalable wall with special spikes at the top. |
| 1:44.8 | No bad garden, perhaps, for a man to reflect in whom some hundred criminals had sworn to |
| 1:50.1 | kill. |
| 1:51.7 | As I haven't explained to the guests their hosted telephone that he was detained for 10 minutes. |
| 1:56.5 | He was in truth making some last arrangements about executions and such ugly things and though these duties were rootedly repulsive to him he always performed them with precision |
| 2:07.6 | ruthless in the pursuit of criminals he was very mild about their punishment |
| 2:15.5 | since he had been supreme over French and largely over European political methods, his great influence had been honorably used for |
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