User:Moswento/The Hammer of God (Chesterton)

- and other Father Brown stories

The Secret Garden
Paris Police Chief Aristide Valentin holds a dinner party for seven guests at his carefully secured home, which is surrounded by a garden with a high wall and only accessible through the guarded front door. In attendance are: English ambassador Lord Galloway and his wife and daughter; the Duchess of Mont St. Michel; French scientist Dr Simon; Commandant O'Brien of the French Foreign Legion; Julius K. Brayne, a multi-millionaire with a financial interest in "small religions"; and Father Brown.