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This compilation of Father Brown stories includes twelve of the best cases of the eccentric but competent priest/detective. Invented by renowned author, essayist and journalist G.K. Chesterton, Father Brown is an amateur sleuth whose day job is one of church preacher. Chesterton, a religious Christian who wrote volumes of essays and fiction surrounding spirituality, would base his stories upon a priest he knew by the name of Father John O'Connor. A popular hit in early 20th century Britain and the USA, the Father Brown detective stories remain a well-written and much-liked addition to the genre over a century after the first tales were published. Characterised by his easily digestible style, ready use and exposure of paradox, and his use of wit and humour to advance argument, Chesterton's fiction and non-fiction writings on the topics of human behaviour and wider society remain relevant and poignant to this day.

Diminutive, bespectacled, and endearing, Father Brown only appears unworldly. But the cherubic parish priest is privy to the inner workings of the most surprising of sinners. And as an amateur sleuth, he intuits motives for Essex’s unsolvable crimes.One of the most beloved characters in twentieth-century detective fiction, the kindly cleric leverages his unrivaled insights into human nature to decipher twelve ingenious mysteries from the witty and clever mind of G. K. Chesterton.Revised edition: Previously published as The Innocence of Father Brown, this edition of The Innocence of Father Brown (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

How is this book unique? Formatted for E-Readers, Unabridged & Original version. You will find it much more comfortable to read on your device/app. Easy on your eyes.Includes: 15 Colored Illustrations and BiographyFather Brown, an ordinary priest whose unremarkable exterior conceals extraordinary crime-solving ability, is celebrated for his solutions to metaphysical mysteries, a genre perfected by his creator, G. K. Chesterton. More than lighthearted comedies built around puzzling crimes, these superbly written tales contain deeply perceptive philosophical reflections. The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) was the first collection of stories featuring the ecclesiastical sleuth and is widely considered the best. In this annotated edition of the collection, the Chesterton scholar Martin Gardner provides detailed notes and background information on various aspects of such stories as "The Blue Cross," "The Secret Garden," "The Invisible Man," "The Hammer of God," "The Eye of Apollo," and seven more, as well as an informative introduction and an extensive bibliography. Included also are eight illustrations reproduced from the first edition. The result is an indispensable companion for all Chesterton enthusiasts and a perfect introduction for anyone who has yet to meet the incomparable Father Brown.

Clerical detective Father Brown is introduced for the first time in this collection of twelve stories. From catching international criminals to simpler wrongdoings, and saving lost souls along the way, Father Brown will stop at nothing to solve each and every crime.The Innocence of Father Brown is followed by The Wisdom of Father Brown, The Incredulity of Father Brown, The Secret of Father Brown, and The Scandal of Father Brown.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

"Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. ""How in Tartarus,"" cried Flambeau, ""did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?"" -- ""Oh, one's little flock, you know!"" said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. ""When I was a curate in Hartlepool, there were three of them with spiked bracelets."" * Not long after he published _Orthodoxy, _ G. K. Chesterton moved from London to Beaconsfield, and met Father O'Connor. O'Connor had a shrewd insight to the darker side of man's nature and a mild appearance to go with it -- and together those came together to become Chesterton's unassuming Father Brown. Chesterton loved the character, and the magazines he wrote for loved the stories. _The Innocence of Father Brown_ was the first collection of them, and it's a great lot of fun."

[Read by Frederick Davidson.] Twelve mysteries featuring one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction.Detective fans of all races and creeds, of all tastes and fancies will delight in the exploits of this wise and whimsical padre. Father Brown's powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes, but he is also ''in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being,'' according to American crime novelist Rufus King. You will be enchanted by the scandalously innocent man of the cloth, with his handy umbrella, who exhibits such uncanny insight into ingeniously tricky human problems. This collection of twelve mysteries solved by Father Brown includes: ''The Blue Cross,'' ''The Secret Garden,'' ''The Queer Feet,'' ''The Flying Stars,'' ''The Invisible Man,'' ''The Honour of Israel Gow,'' ''The Wrong Shape,'' ''The Sins of Prince Saradine,'' ''The Hammer of God,'' ''The Eye of Apollo,'' ''The Sign of the Broken Sword,'' and ''The Three Tools of Death.''

The Innocence of Father Brown is a collection of short stories written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton which were published in 1911.Father Brown is a short, stumpy Roman Catholic Church priest, "formerly of Cobhole in Essex, and now working in London", with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. He makes his first appearance in the story "The Blue Cross" and continues through the five volumes of short stories, often assisted by the reformed criminal M. Hercule Flambeau. Father Brown also appears in a story "The Donnington Affair" that has a rather curious history.The Blue Cross: Father Brown ensures a remarkable occurrence happens at each stop on his travels with the great thief Flambeau, allowing the the detective Valentin to catch up to them and apprehend Flambeau.The Secret Garden: Father Brown discovers that the atheist Valentin murdered an American considering donating a large sum of money to the Catholic church by observing broken twigs far from a tree and the critical observation that the beheading was done so that head that was found would be assumed to be that of the body.The Queer Feet: Father Brown prevents Flambeau from stealing the ornate silverware of the Twelve Fishers by noticing that the footsteps upstairs sometimes walked like that of a loafer, a gentleman, and a waiter, a strange pattern that was solved with the observation that a gentleman's attire is very similar to a waiter's. Flambeau played both parts masterly, but was prevented from absconding with his prize by Father Brown's astute actions.The Flying Stars: Flambeau steals costly diamonds from a Christmas party by dressing up as the harlequin (which requires lots of flashy glass) in a classic Christmas skit, in the process actually beating up a real policeman, but is turned from a life of crime when Father Brown tells him where his, currently relatively moral, thefts will lead.The Invisible Man: Father Brown solves a murder where no one saw anyone enter or leave an apartment complex by observing that the postman is effectively unseen, his presence is so routine and usual that people who are looking for someone entering or leaving may not even consider the postman.The Honor of Israel Gow: The death of a nobleman is investigated by Father Brown and the now private investigator Flambeau. The piles of snuff, candles with no sticks, and the manuscripts with the name of God removed are not dark evil, but merely Israel Gow, who was promised all the gold in the house taking only and exactly what he was given.The Wrong Shape: Father Brown's noting that death of famous writer who had taken ill must have been a murder because the pieces of paper that he had written on were cut inconsistently, causing the doctor who killed the writer because he loved the writer's wife, to confess the murder to Father Brown.The Sins of Prince Saradine: Prince Saradine acquired many enemies who wanted to kill them and had a brother who blackmailed him. Father Brown discovers that after Saradine learned of an former exploit of Flambeau's, Saradine gave his property to his brother who had finally bled him dry and lives as his brothers' butler, thus causing his enemy to think his brother was the real Saradine.The Hammer of God: Father Brown shows a (presumably Episcopal) curate that his failure to pray humbly on the ground, instead of high on the spire, lead him to take God's justice out on his brother, and by his actions, Father Brown leads the curate to repentance.The Eye of Apollo: Father Brown reveals that a priest of the new religion of sun-worshipers kills a blind woman by building a romantic relationship with her, then calling to her that the elevator was ready and then soundlessly taking it to the next floor so that she falls to her death (this was before automatic doors), but that he was cheated out of the inheritance that she had left him by her sister who had left a founta