Have you read any of G.K Chesterton's Father Brown Stories?

I particularly like his description of ... well this:

(quote from The Insoluble Problem a Father Brown Story by G. K. Chesterton)
As they went through the mulberry bushes, the landscape of the garden presented that rich yet ominous effect which is found when the land is actually brighter than the sky. In the broken sunlight from behind, the tree-tops in front of them stood up like pale green flames against a sky steadily blackening with storm, through every shade of purple and violet. The same light struck strips of the lawn and garden beds; and whatever it illuminated seemed more mysteriously sombre and secret for the light. The garden bed was dotted with tulips that looked like drops of dark blood, and some of which one might have sworn were truly black; and the line ended appropriately with a tulip tree; which Father Brown was disposed, if partly by some confused memory, to identify with what is commonly called the Judas tree. What assisted the association was the fact that there was hanging from one of the branches, like a dried fruit, the dry, thin body of an old man, with a long beard that wagged grotesquely in the wind.

I think that's wonderful writing, very evocative of the sunlight and the scene and sneaks in a juicy dead body where you least expected it.  Great stuff!

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

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