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The Mistake of the Machine (The Father Brown Classics, Episode 17)
The Father Brown Classics (Book 17)
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- Narrator
- Sam Kusi
- Publisher
- Bookstream Audiobooks
- Publish Date
- 7 February 2026
- Run Time
- 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- Narrator
- Sam Kusi
- Duration
- 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 February 2026
- ISBN
- 9783711950758
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bookstream Audiobooks
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction
Synopsis
The Mistake of the Machine is a short story by Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Flambeau and his friend the priest were sitting in the Temple Gardens about sunset; and their neighbourhood or some such accidental influence had turned their talk to matters of legal process. From the problem of the licence in cross-examination, their talk strayed to Roman and mediaeval torture, to the examining magistrate in France and the Third Degree in America.
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