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[This is the MP3CD audiobook format and is 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.''

G. K. Chesterton is well known as a novelist, essayist, storyteller, poet, philosopher, theologian, historian, artist, and critic. He's less well-known as a journalist these days, yet all evidence indicates that he viewed his work for the various newspapers as his primary raison-de-etre. Therefore anyone interested in exploring the works of this colossal genius should include a sampling of his newspaper columns along with all of his other brilliant books.

*This book is Annotated (It contains a biography of the Author).* Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur sleuth created in the early 20th century by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown is featured in a series of short stories where he solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature. The character was loosely based by Chesterton on Father John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.

First published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown contains stories involving one of the greatest characters in the history of detective fiction, Father Brown. He is a Roman Catholic priest, has an uncanny insight to human evil. Rather than the large serial villains in stories such as Sherlock Holmes, the mysteries Father Brown solved were more local murders by small town crooks, narrowing the suspect list down to those in the area of the crime. The cozy mystery style that The Innocence of Father Brown conveys sparked a revolution at the time, bringing it to the forefront of the detective fiction genre.