SOURCE: “G. K. Chesterton,” in Detective Fiction and Literature: The Figure on the Carpet, St. Martin's Press, 1991, pp. 123–35.
In the following essay, Priestman discusses Chesterton's use of the detective story format to explore theological issues.
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