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The Man Who Was Thursday

G.K. Chesterton

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1908
Pages
Pages 200

A poet secretly joins the police and infiltrates a council of anarchists named for the days of the week. Unmasking them one by one, he finds each is a fellow detective, sent by the same strange leader.

The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme.
The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton

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