Books with title The Innocence Of Father Brown

Someone has died under mysterious circumstances. The usual crowd gathers: the detectives, a coroner, a collection of witnesses with contradictory versions of events—and a somewhat stout little man in clerical garb whom no one seems to have noticed. Whatever theories the chief detective has devised, whatever “facts” have been determined, G.K. Chesterton’s brilliant priest-detective will soon render them false, and we the readers will be off on the trail of murderer and thief in early twentieth century England. Mysteries confronted by Father Brown in this collection of stories, originally published in 1910 and 1911, are intricately woven. Their solutions require the mind and persistence of one with special genius. The author provides the necessary qualities in the form of an unassuming little priest from Essex.

Father Brown learnt of the dark side of human nature amongst the sinister urban slums of Edwardian England and is compelled to use this insight to solve baffling mysteries that afflict undeserving victims. Assisted by his foil and one-time thief Flambeau, the pair engage their intellect and philosophy to unravel perplexing crimes that neither appear obvious in their motive nor evident their finale. This, the first of five in the Father Brown series, is a collection of stories that blends the macabre and gothic. The reader will venture off to a windswept Scottish castle, stumble upon a beheaded corpse and meet with both madness and religious cult. The diversity of circumstances and accompanying mystery, which exude exotic romanticism, will take the reader on a journey that only Chesteron could have invoked. “One of the finest examples of the English detective genre.”

G.K. Chesterton was an English writer often referred to as "the prince of paradox." Chesterton wrote on a variety of different subjects including mystery fiction, religion, and literary critiques. Chesterton is best known for creating the priest-detective Father Brown and the popular book Orthodoxy. The Innocence of Father Brown is a collection of twelve short stories published in 1911.

The first of G.K. Chesterton's books about seemingly hapless sleuth Father Brown, "The Innocence of Father Brown" collects twelve classic tales: "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." "Father Brown is a direct challenge to the conventional detective and in many ways he is more amusing and ingenious." --Saturday Review

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] 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 star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton. Based on a parish priest who was partially responsible for Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922, Brown is a stubby Catholic priest equipped with a large umbrella, a formless outfit and a sharp insight into the human nature. The stories included here are 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.

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