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The Three Tools of Death
G. K. Chesterton · 1910 · Mystery & Detective
A dawn train stops beneath a tall Hampstead house after a death on the railway bank. Father Brown finds a household trapped between three apparent weapons, overlapping accusations, and loyalties that make the simplest account impossible.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 21 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The Three Tools of Death - Principal Characters
Father Brown - The Humble Investigator
Sir Aaron Armstrong - The Permanent Optimist
The World of The Three Tools of Death
The World in Edwardian Hampstead, circa 1910Heathland, elevated housing, domestic service, rail travel, communications, policing, and civic life.
The Household - Connections and Open Questions
Scene I - The Cry Above the Engine
Scene III - Across the Fields
This edition
- Title
- The Three Tools of Death
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
- First published
- 1910
- Illustrated plates
- 49 original artworks · 21 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 5,175 words
- Reading time
- 21 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.
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