User:Brian P. Long/G.K. Chesterton

'''Cut this from the Chesterton article. Cf. Ezra Pound for the reasoning. Brian P. Long 15:12, 11 March 2009 (UTC)'''

Chesterton's writings are uneven. As a mystery writer, Chesterton's stories in The Innocence of Father Brown take the popular locked-room mystery in an interesting direction, but the later Father Brown stories lose their tightness. Chesterton is a frustrating read, because even in his flabbiest fiction there are sections of crisp prose and limpid description.