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This is your audiobook for March 2022 — my reading of "The Hammer of God" by G.K. Chesterton. This short story featuring Chesterton's regular priestly detective Father Brown was first published in the Saturday Evening Post on 5 November 1910 as "The Bolt from the Blue". It was then included as "The Hammer of God" in the 1911 collection The Innocence of Father Brown. As in a lot of the Father Brown stories, Chesterton is playing with both biblical and crime fiction conventions. It's also a story that was referenced several times after publication by other authors; those familiar with the 1937 novel Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers might recognise it.
By Caroline CramptonThis is your audiobook for March 2022 — my reading of "The Hammer of God" by G.K. Chesterton. This short story featuring Chesterton's regular priestly detective Father Brown was first published in the Saturday Evening Post on 5 November 1910 as "The Bolt from the Blue". It was then included as "The Hammer of God" in the 1911 collection The Innocence of Father Brown. As in a lot of the Father Brown stories, Chesterton is playing with both biblical and crime fiction conventions. It's also a story that was referenced several times after publication by other authors; those familiar with the 1937 novel Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers might recognise it.