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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 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
The Three Tools of Death - Principal Characters
Father Brown - The Humble Investigator
Sir Aaron Armstrong - The Permanent Optimist
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.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #204
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