Chesterton, of course, was the model John Dickson Carr used for his detective Gideon Fell (just as he used Winston Churchill as a model for Sir Henry Merrivale) and I find it hard to see Gideon Fell as a saint.
Jerry House: And neither would GKC think so 8-), but what a genius of a writer/essayist!
Why not Leslie Charteris?
Doesn't a "saint" have to perform miracles to earn the title?Jeff
Post a Comment
4 comments:
Chesterton, of course, was the model John Dickson Carr used for his detective Gideon Fell (just as he used Winston Churchill as a model for Sir Henry Merrivale) and I find it hard to see Gideon Fell as a saint.
Jerry House: And neither would GKC think so 8-), but what a genius of a writer/essayist!
Why not Leslie Charteris?
Doesn't a "saint" have to perform miracles to earn the title?
Jeff
Post a Comment