The Man Who Knew Too Much

2011 Reprint of 1922 Edition. From the creator of Father Brown comes a collection reviewed by The Armchair Detective as dazzlingly executed and richly atmospheric. Eight stories recount the adventures of Horne Fisher a socialite who uses his powerful deductive gifts to investigate crimes committed on the sprawling country estates of the aristocracy. Evocative portraits of pre-World War I Britain. The Man Who Knew Too Much has some similarities to the Father Brown stories: Horne Fisher the hero of the stories is connected and indeed related to many of the high-ranking politicians of his age and thus knows too much about the background of the mysteries in which he becomes embroiled and which he unravels.