![]() ![]() They use the morbid fascination most people have with crime to set up a mental puzzle. ![]() Murder mysteries tend to be light reading, and they might at first seem like a curious vehicle for teaching moral lessons. They also offer important insights about the destructive potential of sin and the healing power of truth.įor Chesterton, Christie and McInerny, a mystery story was the perfect device for showing how even dramatic sins spring from the fallen condition that all human beings share. Along the way, though, they deliver more than a culprit. Their readers expect them to crack the case, and invariably they do. They are sleuths who look less on hair follicles and fingerprints, and more on the human heart. Though we cannot look forward to conversing with them in heaven, we can learn much from these characters here below. Chesterton, Agatha Christie and Ralph McInerny, respectively. That is because they are literary detectives, created by G. He was a steadfast guide and counselor, especially to those in most need of God’s mercy. Roger Dowling confronted every kind of sin, degradation and personal disappointment without ever losing his faith or his compassion. ![]() Hercule Poirot could engage murderers in genial conversation, full of empathy and without the slightest trace of fear. He could foil a criminal mastermind and then bring him to repentance before bringing him to justice. Father Brown was a great man of small stature. ![]()
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