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Hot on the trail of master criminal Flambeau, the head of the Paris police arrives in London, where he begins to notice small things out of

Bachmann sat on a bench in the shade that smelled sickly with blossom and watched as the sergeant took command and the little company moved forward. Bachmann mounted the small, quick-hurrying tram...

I am a Cheap Jack, and I am partial to a white hat. The doctor accepted a tea-tray from me, and the old couple, though retired, cried out in the old patter, fluent, "Now here is a working model of...

Frederick Erlcort was laughing with a blonde at the book-counter when he stopped at the bell-pull of an elderly girl's studio ten stories above. The friends decided that the front of the shop...

A coffee shop worker and night warden uses lies to connect with people, leading to misunderstandings and strained relationships.

Because my head is a magnet for bullets, I am spending the day indoors. I stuffed myself into the reliquary, and I am finding movement difficult, but I would not dream of dancing in this outfit.

The High Street of the town consists of two rows of one-storeyed hovels, squeezed close one against another. At the end of the street stood an old, long, two-storeyed house, kept by a retired...

A visit to an old friend takes an unexpected turn.

Father Brown was made of two men, but Major Putnam was a bald-headed, bull-necked man, short and very broad, with a kind of innocent grin on his face. He led the way into his house without further...

I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. Our fireplaces are on opposite sides, but our flue is separate throughout. The main reason of this style of chimney building is...

While on a canoe trip down the Danube River, two friends encounter some mysterious, hostile entities.

My going to Valencia was entirely an accident, and I revisited Valencia on some mysterious and secret mission. A young man, hungrily listening to my words, demanded to know why the ship rolled and...