The Thieves' Paradise (The Wisdom of Father Brown) - G.B. Chesterton
Nestled among the rugged peaks of the Umbrian Alps, where clouds brush the precipice, legends whisper of a secret valley—a place where laws hold no sway, and justice has no hold. They call it: the Thieves' Paradise. When a carriage carrying a poet in search of love, a banker fleeing his fears, and a priest who sees what others cannot, decides to cross this perilous passage, they all believe they are aware of the danger they face. But in the presence of the legendary "King of Thieves," they di...