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Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast, Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid, and Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine. Holmes quickly solves the mystery, locating Hatty at a hotel with a mysterious, "common-looking" man who had picked up her dropped bouquet after the ceremony.

"The Blue Cross" is a short story by G. K. Chesterton. It was the first Father Brown short story and also introduces the characters Flambeau and Valentin. It is unique among the Father Brown mysteries in that it does not follow the actions of the Father himself, but rather those of Valentin. It was first published on 23 July 1910, under the title "Valentin Follows a Curious Trail", in the Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia. Re-titled as "The Blue Cross", publication in London followed, in The Story-Teller magazine of September 1910.

The Queer Feet" deals with Flambeau wanting to steal the silverware of the members of the Twelve True Fishermen having their annual club dinner at Vernon Hotel. The Vernon Hotel is an exclusive hotel and a "topsy-turvy product" (Chesterton 1994, p. 51).

The tenth story in The Innocence of Father Brown is entitled The Eye of Apollo. At the beginning of this short story, Flambeau has just opened his detective agency in a new building located near Westminster Abbey. The other tenants in the building are a religious charlatan named Kalon, who claims to be "the New Priest of Apollo," and two sisters, who are typists. Flambeau and Father Brown instinctively distrust Kalon, who has installed a huge eye of Apollo outside his office.

John Openshaw tells Holmes that in 1883 his uncle died two months after receiving a letter inscribed "K.K.K." with five orange pips enclosed, and that in 1885 his father died soon after receiving a similar letter; now Openshaw himself has received such a letter. Holmes tells him to do as the letter asks and leave a diary page, which Holmes deduces is connected to the Ku Klux Klan, on the garden sundial. Openshaw is killed before he can do so, but Holmes discovers the killers have been travelling on a sailing ship, and sends the captain a letter with five orange pips. The ship is lost at sea.

The Reverend Wilfred Bohun could no longer stand the scandalous behavior of his alcoholic brother Norman, who blasphemed God and humiliated the Reverend Bohun in the eyes of his parishioners. Chesterton states that Wilfred and Norman Bohun belong to an old noble family whose descendants are now mostly "drunkards and dandy degenerates." Rumor has it that there has been "a whisper of insanity" in the Bohun family.

Both by calling and conviction Father Brown knew better than most of us, that every man is dignified when he is dead. But even he felt a pang of incongruity when he was knocked up at daybreak and told that Sir Aaron Armstrong had been murdered. There was something absurd and unseemly about secret violence in connection with so entirely entertaining and popular a figure. For Sir Aaron Armstrong was entertaining to the point of being comic; and popular in such a manner as to be almost legendary.

The Sign of the Broken Sword is a short story by G. K. Chesterton featuring his famous characters Father Brown and former criminal Flambeau. At the centre of the story is the mysterious death of General Sir Arthur St. Clare, who was hanged on a tree with his broken sword hung round his neck. It is a detective story and throughout it Father Brown reveals the mystery of General St. Clare.

Certain of the great roads going north out of London continue far into the country a sort of attenuated and interrupted spectre of a street, with great gaps in the building, but preserving the line. Here will be a group of shops, followed by a fenced field or paddock, and then a famous public-house, and then perhaps a market garden or a nursery garden, and then one large private house, and then another field and another inn, and so on.

"The Invisible Man" is a detective story written by G. K. Chesterton which concerns the nature of the crimes committed by one James Welkin, who had been harassing Laura Hope and menacing his romantic rival, Isidore Smythe (whom he would later murder), all without ever being seen.

A stormy evening of olive and silver was closing in, as Father Brown, wrapped in a grey Scotch plaid, came to the end of a grey Scotch valley and beheld the strange castle of Glengyle. It stopped one end of the glen or hollow like a blind alley; and it looked like the end of the world. Rising in steep roofs and spires of seagreen slate in the manner of the old French-Scotch chateaux, it reminded an Englishman of the sinister steeple-hats of witches in fairy tales; and the pine woods that rocked round the green turrets looked, by comparison, as black as numberless flocks of ravens.

The story takes place at an English manor home on Boxing Day. A young lady and the young man who lives next door are present, as is the girl's father, Colonel Adams, a newly arrived uncle and a quite rich godfather. Also present, in addition to the servants, simply because the Colonel likes his company is the local priest, Father Brown. The godfather has brought a gift for the young lady, a set of three gorgeous, large diamonds, which he has tucked away in his coat pocket.

Father Brown (Chesterton's sharp-witted detective priest) and Flambeau (the reformed master-thief and Brown's constant companion) are on a little vacation in Norfolk, invited to visit the mysterious Prince Saradine. It doesn't go well. Sure, Flambeau gets some good fishing in, but there's also a duel with rapiers, a couple murders, a hanging, a case of mistaken identity, an awkward family reunion, and a gang of surly Sicilians.

Als die kleine Maja erwachte, war es schon hell geworden. Sie fror ein wenig unter ihrem großen grünen Blatt, und die ersten Bewegungen, die sie machte, gelangen ihr nur schwerfällig und langsam. Sie hielt sich an einem Äderchen des Blattes fest und ließ ihre Flügel zittern und flimmern, damit sie geschmeidig und frei von Staub werden möchten.

Die Biene Maja ist eine bezaubernde Kindergeschichte von Waldemar Bonsels. Folge 3: Der Waldsee und seine Leute mit Viola Gabor und Viktoria Gabor. Ach, dachte die kleine Maja im Dahinfliegen, nun habe ich vergessen, Peppi nach den Menschen zu fragen. Ein so erfahrener Mann, wie er, hätte mir sicherlich die beste Auskunft geben können. Aber vielleicht würde sie heute noch selbst einem Menschen begegnen. Voll Unternehmungslust und Frohsinn ließ sie ihre blanken Augen über das weite bunte Land schweifen, das sich unter ihr in seiner sommerlichen Pracht ausbreitete.

Die ältere Bienendame, die der kleinen Biene Maja behilflich war, als sie zum Leben erwachte und aus ihrer Zelle schlüpfte, hieß Kassandra und hatte großes Ansehen im Stock. Es waren damals sehr aufgeregte Tage, weil im Volk der Bienen eine Empörung ausgebrochen war, die die Königin nicht unterdrücken konnte.

In Reconstruction, a young girl plays the part of her missing school friend, Josie Farraday, in the police reconstruction of the day she disappeared.

Nils Holgersson ist eine bezaubernde Kindergeschichte von Selma Lagerlöf. Folge 23: In Närke mit Viola Gabor und Viktoria Gabor. Musik: Geoff Harvey. In Närke hatten sie in alten Zeiten etwas, das sie sonst nirgends in der Welt hatten, nämlich einen Kobold, die Ysätters-Kajsa. - Den Namen hatte sie erhalten, weil sie so viel mit Wind und Sturm zu tun hatte, und diese Windkobolde pflegt man immer Kajsa zu nennen, und den Beinamen hatte sie erhalten, weil es hieß, sie sei aus dem Ysätter-Meer im Kirchspiel Asker gekommen.

Am nächsten Tage flogen die wilden Gänse nordwärts über Sörmland. Der Junge saß da und sah auf die Gegend herab und dachte bei sich, sie gleiche keiner der Gegenden, die er bisher gehört hatte.

Als eines Nachmittags Mrs. Victoria Scott, eine feengleiche Erscheinung, den Meisterdetektiv um Hilfe bittet, das Rätsel um ihren verschwundenen Ehemann zu lösen, nehmen Holmes und Watson sofort die Ermittlungen auf. Der große Damiano soll während seiner Zaubershow, im Adelphi Theater, Mr. Scott auf der Bühne verschwinden lassen haben sollen. Als vor Holmes und Watsons Augen ein zweiter Mann auf dieselbe Art spurlos verschwindet, beschließt Holmes kurzerhand den faulen Zauber des großen Damianos auffliegen zu lassen.