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# Chesterton Short
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/29138/
- Published: 2013-09-04T06:49:20.000Z
- Updated: 2013-09-04T06:49:20.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

**Background**: When I was the editor of *[Gilbert Magazine](http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

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 Chesterton Short(s)

In 1939 Agatha Christie published a collection of murder mysteries with the title *The Regatta Mystery*. The volume included the cases of several of the author's detectives. In her notes, Christie describes as a "G.K.C. idea" the basic conception for the Miss Marple story in the collection. The idea, obviously based on Chesterton's 1911 story "The Invisible Man," was that the criminal is disguised as a housemaid–so no one notices her. \[Janet Morgan, *Agatha Christie*, New York: 1985, p. 221\]