The Man Who Was Thursday

A brilliant grotesque detective story, wittily and surrealistically written in Chesterton's style.
In a picturesque park on the outskirts of London, two poets meet: Gregory Lucian, who considers himself an anarchist, and Gabriel Syme, who is actually a secret police agent and hates permissiveness. By cunningly forcing Gregory to introduce him to a secret society of conspirators, where each member has a pseudonym corresponding to a specific day of the week, Syme gains their trust and even takes a leading position, replacing Thursday. However, the rapidly unfolding events are far from what he could have expected…