Welcome back, listeners to 1001 classic short stories and tales.

This is your host and storyteller, John Haggardorn. It's been a while since we've done a

father brown mystery, and I've got a great one for you here today. The Strange Crime of John

Bullnoy. In this story, reporter Calhoun Kid of the Western Son is off to interview John Bolonoy

at his home, greatage, at the end of

Pendragon Park. But he comes across a murder. Who is the guilty party? Father Brown investigates.

And now our story.

Mr. Calhoun Kid was a very young gentleman with a very old face.

A face dried up with its own eagerness, framed in blue-black hair and a black butterfly dye.

He was the emissary in England of the colossal American daily called the Western Sun,

also humorously described as the rising sunset. This was an allusion to a great journalistic declaration attributed to Mr. Kidd himself, that he guessed the sun would rise in the West yet if American

citizens did a bit more hustling. Those, however, who mock American journalism from the

standpoint of somewhat mellower traditions, forget a certain paradox which partly redeems it.

For a while the journalism of the states permits a pantomimic vulgarity long past anything English,

it also shows a real excitement about the most earnest mental problems, of which English papers

are innocent, or rather incapable.

William James, figured there, as well as Weary Willie, and pragmatists alternated with pugilists in the long

procession of its portraits. Thus, when a very unobtrusive Oxford man named John Bolignoy wrote

in a very unreadable review called The Natural Philosophy Quarterly, a series of articles on

alleged weak points in Darwinian evolution,

it fluttered no corner of the English papers.

Though Bonnoy's theory, which was that of a comparatively stationary universe,

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