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The Secret Garden
G. K. Chesterton · 1910 · Mystery & Detective
A distinguished dinner at Aristide Valentin’s fortified Paris home becomes an impossible murder inquiry when a stranger is found in the sealed garden and every apparent answer opens another wall within the mystery.
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This edition
- Title
- The Secret Garden
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
- First published
- 1910
- Illustrated plates
- 54 original artworks · 22 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 7,700 words
- Reading time
- 31 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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