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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Lost GK Chesterton essay about detective stories published for first time

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GK Chesterton in the garden of his home in Beaconsfield. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

An unpublished essay by the English writer and critic GK Chesterton will be published this week by the Strand Magazine.

Under its editor-in-chief, Andrew Gulli, the Strand has recently published unknown stories by Truman Capote, James M Cain and Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone. But the case of the lost Chesterton is different, if appropriately so given its author’s famous wit. It turns out the essay, The Historical Detective Story, wasn’t lost at all.

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