The Trees of Pride

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton

Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Short Stories

Narrators: Maria Therese

Number of Chapters: 4

Length: 2 hours and 15 minutes

Language: English

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees? (Summary by Maria Therese)