Sunday, August 11, 2013

Finally, a Crime Novelist Gets Some Respect

Pope blesses plans to make writer of Father Brown stories G.K. Chesterton a saint

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

4 comments:

Jerry House said...

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.

Bud said...

Jerry House: And neither would GKC think so 8-), but what a genius of a writer/essayist!

Cap'n Bob said...

Why not Leslie Charteris?

Anonymous said...

Doesn't a "saint" have to perform miracles to earn the title?


Jeff