Father Brown and the Marconi Scandal

This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories and the so-called Marconi scandal. It first considers Wilfrid Ward's review of Chesterton's book Orthodoxy and Chesterton's meeting with the Conservative politician Lord Hugh Cecil. It then turns to the first of the Father Brown stories, “The Blue Cross,” published in September 1910 in the Storyteller magazine. It also discusses Chesterton's novel, Manalive, published in February 1912 before concluding with an analysis of the Marconi scandal of 1911 involving the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company and its managing director, Godfrey Isaacs.

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