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The Strange Crime of John Boulnois (The Father Brown Classics, Episode 23)
The Father Brown Classics (Related to this series)
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- Narrator
- Sam Kusi
- Publisher
- Bookstream Audiobooks
- Publish Date
- 13 February 2026
- Run Time
- 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- Narrator
- Sam Kusi
- Duration
- 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 February 2026
- ISBN
- 9783711950932
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bookstream Audiobooks
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction
Synopsis
The Strange Crime of John Boulnois is a short story by Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Mr. Calhoun Kidd 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 tie. He was the emissary in England of the colossal American daily called The Western Sun—also humorously described as the "Rising Sunset." This was in 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.
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