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Fisher, Horne. Horne Fisher was created by G.K. Chesterton (Father Brown, Club of Queer Trades, Gabriel Gale, Mr. Pond) and appeared in eight stories from 1920 to 1922, beginning with “The Face in the Target” (The Storyteller, Jan. 1920); the stories were collected in The Man Who Knew Too Much: And Other Stories (1922).

Horne Fisher is a languid and even sleepy man of independent means who knows too much about everything: people, Ireland, England, and society itself, which is why he is often powerless to prevent murders or even solve them, and can only, sometimes, engineer justice much afterwards.

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