“The Hammer of God” by G.K. Chesterton
Number 11 of 27 Great British Short Stories
Premise: Father Brown has to solve an insoluble murder, in just a few pages.
Review: Yes, nicely done. I can see why the Father Brown stories are so successful, although it’s not really my thing
Here’s the wikipedia entry.
Outa ten: 8
Keywords: Murder, god bothering, cathedrals
Quotes: “… man is himself a miracle, with his strange and wicked and yet half-heroic heart.” p129
“Humility is the mother of giants” p.131
Words:
pennon – A pennon, also known as a pennant or pendant, is a long narrow flag which is larger at the hoist than at the fly, i.e., the flag narrows as it moves away from the flagpole. It can have several shapes, such as triangular, tapering (square tail) or triangular swallowtail (forked tail), etc.
Fungoid of or caused by a fungus or fungi.
“she suffered from a fungoid disease of her feet”
noun
- a fungus or a growth resembling a fungus.
Look up:
Sennacherib – Sennacherib (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒀭𒌍𒉽𒈨𒌍𒋢, romanized: Sîn-aḥḥī-erība[3] or Sîn-aḥḥē-erība,[4] meaning “Sîn has replaced the brothers”)[5][6] was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 705 BC until his assassination in 681 BC. The second king of the Sargonid dynasty, Sennacherib is one of the most famous Assyrian kings for the role he plays in the Hebrew Bible, which describes his campaign in the Levant. Other events of his reign include his destruction of the city of Babylon in 689 BC and his renovation and expansion of the last great Assyrian capital, Nineveh.
Afterlives of the story/connections to other stuff: It is used as the opening story for two different TV series…
Is it online? Yes
marchudson.net 
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