Full name: The Poet and the Lunatics: Episodes in the Life of Gabriel Gale

Author: G. K. Chesterton Year: 1929 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Classic, Mystery Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780486478432 0486478432

An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought-provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosophical police-work forms the basis for captivating explorations of poetry, insanity, and sin -- all expressed in the author's characteristic paradoxes and soaring flights of rhetoric. Best known as the creator of priest-detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) ranks among the twentieth century's most influential writers and thinkers. His prodigious talents embraced a wide range of subjects and genres, from philosophy and religion to history, literary criticism, and fantasy. Similar books: The Hustler by Walter Tevis The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens The Middle of Things by J. S. Fletcher Beyond This Place by Archibald J. Cronin Proud Beggars by Albert Cossery Saint Peter's Snow by Leo Perutz A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins Stamboul Train by Graham Greene The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins Miss Pinkerton by Mary Roberts Rinehart Caleb Williams by William Godwin The Window at the White Cat by Mary Roberts Rinehart Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville The Evil Shepherd by E. Phillips Oppenheim Blind Love by Wilkie Collins The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett My Lady's Money by Wilkie Collins The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart The Pit-Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts