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Original title: The Hammer of God
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Detective Story and Detectives

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Innocence of Father Brown, the (1911) [Collection]
      Author: G. K. Chesterton
     Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries, the (1936) [Anthology]
      Authors: M. R. James , Aldous Huxley , Bram Stoker , Edgar Allan Poe , Agatha Christie , Ambrose Bierce , D. H. Lawrence , Alexander Pushkin , H. G. Wells , Joseph Conrad , Lord Dunsany , Algernon Blackwood , William Hope Hodgson , Robert Louis Stevenson , W. Somerset Maugham , O. Henry , Washington Irving , G. K. Chesterton , Guy de Maupassant , Arthur Quiller-Couch , Saki , W. W. Jacobs , Edgar Wallace , Michael Arlen , Barry Pain , Joseph Smith (J.S.) Fletcher , Eden Phillpotts , Hugh Walpole , Walter de la Mare , A. E. Coppard , Arnold Bennett , P.C. Wren , A. J. Alan , John D. Beresford , Gerald Bullett , Jeffery Farnol , Pamela Hansford Johnson , C.D. Heriot , C.F. Hoffman , Tom Hood , Jerome K. Jerome , Oliver Onions , William B. Seabrook , May Sinclair , H. de Vere Stacpoole , E. F. Benson , L. P. Hartley , A.E.D. Smith , J. B. Priestley , Rebecca West
     Bedside Book of Famous British Stories, the (1940) [Anthology]
      Authors: M. R. James , Aldous Huxley , Rudyard Kipling , Charles Dickens , Daniel Defoe , Arthur Conan Doyle , E. M. Forster , James Joyce , D. H. Lawrence , Walter Scott , H. G. Wells , Oscar Wilde , William Butler Yeats , Rabindranath Tagore , John Galsworthy , James M. Barrie , Joseph Conrad , Lord Dunsany , Thomas Hardy , Algernon Blackwood , Robert Louis Stevenson , W. Somerset Maugham , Joseph Addison , Geoffrey Chaucer , Sir Thomas Malory , Oliver Goldsmith , George Moore , Liam O'Flaherty , James Stephens , William Makepeace Thackeray , G. K. Chesterton , John Buchan , Anthony Trollope , Evelyn Waugh , Henry Williamson , Katherine Mansfield , Arthur Quiller-Couch , Saki , P.G. Wodehouse , Thomas Burke , W. W. Jacobs , Michael Arlen , C.E. Montague , Eden Phillpotts , Hugh Walpole , John Masefield , Arthur Morrison , Elizabeth Gaskell , Max Beerbohm , Alfred Noyes , A. E. Coppard , Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Arnold Bennett , W.H. Hudson , Samuel Lover , George Meredith , H.M. Tomlinson , William J. Locke , Stacy Aumonier , William Mudford , John Brown , Sheila Kaye-Smith , Roland Pertwee , Weston Martyr , Thomas Owen Beachcroft , R. Cunninghame Graham , Morley Roberts , Martin Ross , Leonard Merrick , Philip Gibbs , May Edginton , Francis Brett Young , Donn Byrne , L. A. G. Strong , Ralph Bates , Ian Maclaren
     Best Crime Stories, the (1977) [Anthology]
      Authors: Aldous Huxley , Edgar Allan Poe , Agatha Christie , Roald Dahl , Arthur Conan Doyle , Dorothy L. Sayers , John Steinbeck , Dick Francis , Wilkie Collins , Dashiell Hammett , Avram Davidson , W. Somerset Maugham , John D. MacDonald , G. K. Chesterton , Helen Nielsen , Margery Allingham , Patricia McGerr , Celia Fremlin , Patrick Quentin , Michael Gilbert , P.D. James , Stanley Ellin , Julian Symons , Christianna Brand , Cornell Woolrich , W. W. Jacobs , Edgar Wallace , Charlotte Armstrong , Henry Holt , George Goodchild , Anthony Berkeley , James Hilton , Robert Arthur , Roy Vickers , Jay Wilson , Anthony Gilbert , Brian Cleeve , Eric Parr , Elizabeth Ferrars , Hugh Pentecost , Mary Kelly , Miles Tripp , John Garforth , Jane Aiken Hodge , James McClure , Ted Willis
     Sins of the Fathers: an Anthology of Clerical Crime (1997) [Anthology]
      Authors: M. R. James , Agatha Christie , Arthur Conan Doyle , Anton Chekhov , John Galsworthy , Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , Sherwood Anderson , G. K. Chesterton , Guy de Maupassant , Saki , Joseph Smith (J.S.) Fletcher , Richard Harris Barham , E. F. Benson , Arthur Gray