Trivia / G. K. Chesterton

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  • In E. R. Punshon's detective story Death of a Beauty Queen, one of the police detectives mentions hearing a radio talk by one "C. K. Gilbert" about solving a crime by understanding the criminal's motive — a clear reference to Chesterton's Father Brown story The Secret of Father Brown.
  • Fiddler's Green in The Sandman is a Genius Loci who disguises himself in the human form of a portly, moustachioed 19th-century Englishman and calls himself 'Gilbert'. Morpheus' library of books that authors imagined but never wrote also includes a copy of The Man Who Was October.