Teaser Tuesday - G. K. Chesterton

Teaser Tuesday is brought to you by Should Be Reading. To play along:

(1) Grab your current read;

(2) Let the book fall open to a random page; and

(3) Share two "teaser" sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12 (avoiding spoilers).

You also need to give the title of the book so we can follow up and check it out if we're hooked by the teaser.

Here's my teaser for today:

"The priest had snatched a day from his business at Glasgow to meet his friend Flambeau, the amateur detective, who was at Glengyle Castle with another more formal officer investigating the life and death of the late Earl of Glengyle. That mysterious person was the last representative of a race whose valour, insanity,a nd violent cunning had made them terrible even among the sinister nobility of their nation in the sixteenth century."

It's from The Innocence and Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton. It's a collection of short story mysteries with the sleuth as a British Catholic priest named Father Brown. Father Brown is always described as short and round and moon-faced and seems a bit simple until he bursts out with random statements that lead to him solving the case.