Horne Fisher is extremely well connected. The plans of prime ministers foreign ambassadors and chancellors are matters of table conversation - usually because these people are dining with him. And when a man so well connected is also a brilliant detective all sinister motives and plots systematically unfold.<br><br>Whether it is a case of police corruption or a war with Sweden Horne Fisher can always solve it. But Horne Fisher is also a philosopher and not a policeman and the murderer is seldom punished. G. K. Chesterton author of the Father Brown stories here introduces another detective outside the realm of conventional law enforcement.<br><br><i>The Man Who Knew Too Much</i> contains eight stories full of mystery and adventure with a fair share of food for thought.