". . . every good detective novel is built on paradox. Suspense must go against _doxa_, betraying suspicion. Furthermore, the technique of such tales is one of progress through negations to assertion. Elimination of possibilities is the ddetective's method, and it is a lively parable of the fact that truth can be found by a process of destruction."
(Wills 122)



"Father Brown's secret is that he knows he is a criminal, and can therefore sympathize with the sinner in the full sense of practically commiting the sin."
(Wills 164)

Wills, Garry. Chesterton: Man and Mask. Sheed & Ward: New York 1961