Horne Fisher, the man who knew too much, is continually facing a moral dilemma in the course of his adventures, here recounted to, or shared with his journalist friend, Harold March, in this collection of short stories.The majority of the are concerned with crime among eminent people, even involving members of the Cabinet, and while Fisher always unearths the criminal, for security and other reasons justice does not usually take its normal course. These stories exemplify Chesterton's brilliant and unusual approach to the short detective story and will be enjoyed today as much as when they were first published forty year ago.