from clq

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a collection of short stories revolving around... well, the man who knew too much, Horne Fisher. The stories are short murder mysteries in which Mr. Fisher figures out what has happened. The murders are all of a political nature, and much of the time Horne comes to th...

from aront

I'm another person who "read" this book by listening to BJ Harrison's Classic Tales podcast. Without Harrison I probably would never have gotten through it, based on my experience with the Man Who WasThursday, which I stopped after a chapter or two. Chesterton is a pretty decent writer, but like ...

from Bettesbooks

Eight stories of Horne Fisher, gentleman detective. Published in 1922 in both U.S. and England Horne Fisher is a gentleman who knows everyone and knows too much. He balances the criminal against the country's political positioning. The stories have vague, unsubstantiated clues with lots of descri...

from theokester

Apart from knowing that The Man Who Knew Too Much was a detective story and that it was written by G.K. Chesterton, I didn't know much about this book going in. I've read some of the Father Brown stories by Chesterton and really enjoyed them so I was looking forward to sinking my teeth into a Che...

from antiquary

For me, not quite up to Father Brown, but interesting, particularly the one in which a British finance minister poisons a set of millionaires to balance the budget on their death duties.