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The Honour of Israel Gow
G. K. Chesterton · 1910 · Mystery & Detective
At a remote Highland castle, Father Brown, Flambeau, and Inspector Craven confront an inventory of inexplicable fragments, a silent gardener, and a violated grave. What first resembles madness or black magic leads instead to a startling question: how strange can perfect literal honesty appear?
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This edition
- Title
- The Honour of Israel Gow
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
- First published
- 1910
- Illustrated plates
- 42 original artworks · 18 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 5,762 words
- Reading time
- 23 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #204
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