Near the end of a novel by this man, an elephant escapes from the zoo with "a large and fat old gentleman" riding on its back.
Near the end of a novel by this man, an elephant escapes from the zoo with "a large and fat old gentleman" riding on its back. This man ended that novel with the protagonist arguing he has suffered and then seeing a giant face ask "Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?". This author wrote a story in which Aristide Valentin hunts a thief whose attack on reason reveals bad theology and exposes his disguise as a clergyman. A recurring character first appears in his story "The Blue Cross", where he captures his future partner, the jewel thief Flambeau. This man wrote a novel in which Gabriel Syme infiltrates an anarchist council whose heads have names of the days of the week. For 10 points, name this Catholic creator of amateur detective Father Brown who wrote The Man Who Was Thursday.
Near the end of a novel by this man, an elephant escapes from the zoo with "a large and fat old gentleman" riding on its back.
G. K. Chesterton [or Gilbert Keith Chesterton]