GKC Wednesday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine, 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.

Chesterton Short(s)

In 1989 The Armchair Detective quarterly asked author Isaac Asimov to contribute his list of ten "favorite mysteries." We are happy to report that The Innocence of Father Brown was one of the late Dr. Asimovs ten. [TAD Book of Lists, New York: Penzler, 1989]