One of Chesterton’s best, 8 detective stories starring the amateur leisure class / self-deprecating blue blood detective Horne Fisher, which present GKC’s traditional Catholic worldview - God, family, country - in a highly entertaining way, circa 1922:

Discussing cherished ancestral traditions, authentic patriotism (“little Englanders” with no interest in Empire), foreign and Jewish control of parliament, the eternal tactic of using foreign labor and mercenaries to undercut domestic workers, the inherently anti-elitist and pro-populist nature of Christianity, the moral need to give the common man land of his own, treasonous nobles and scheming wannabe aristocrats who stole the people’s land during the Reformation with the dissolution of the monasteries, endless Chestertonian good-natured gallows humor, and much more!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5177132&forum_id=2...id.#45045227)

"First published in 1922 and filled with evocative portraits of pre–World War I society, these eight stories from the creator of the Father Brown mysteries recount the adventures of Horne Fisher, a socialite who uses his immense knowledge and powerful deductive gifts to investigate crimes committed on the sprawling country estates of the aristocracy—crimes that must, alas, go largely unpunished due to the greater harm that justice would unleash."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5177132&forum_id=2...id.#45045228)