The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
A WILD, MAD, HILARIOUS AND PROFOUNDLY MOVING TALE
It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY.
It is
possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story
of murderous
criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be
expected that
the author of the Father Brown stories should tell
a detective
story like no-one else. On this level, therefore,
THE MAN WHO WAS
THURSDAY succeeds superbly; if nothing else, it is
a magnificent
tour-de-force of suspense-writing.
However, the reader will soon discover that it is
much more than
that. Carried along on the boisterous rush of
the narrative by
Chesterton’s wonderful high-spirited style,
he will soon see that
he is being carried into much deeper waters than he
had planned on;
and the totally unforeseeable denouement will prove
for the modern
reader, as it has for thousands of others since 1908
when the book
was first published, an inevitable and moving experience,
as the
investigators finally discover who Sunday is.
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