An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought-provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosophical police work forms the basis for captivating explorations of poetry, insanity, and sin---all expressed in the author's characteristic paradoxes and soaring flights of rhetoric.<BR><BR>Best known as the creator of priest-detective Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) ranks among the twentieth century's most influential writers and thinkers. His prodigious talents embraced a wide range of subjects and genres, from philosophy and religion to history, literary criticism, and fantasy.<BR><BR>Dover (2010) unabridged republication of the edition published by Cassell and Company, Ltd., London, 1929