The Innocence of Father Brown: A Collection of Short Stories Regarding the Famous Detective

G. K. Chesterton

Jul 2018 · Gilead Publishing

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The enduring classic, now with updated language for today’s reader...

This first volume of G.K. Chesterton’s mysteries marks the debut of a most unusual detective: Father Paul Brown, a short, stumpy priest with an extraordinary and uncanny ability to spot the evil that lies in human hearts.In these twelve stories, the cleric encountersingeniouscharacters like Hercule Flambeau, the elusive mastermind criminal, and Aristide Valentin,chief of theParis police.

Father Brown uses his wisdom, common sense, and experience as a confessor to solve baffling, fascinating crimes—and save lost souls along the way.

About the author

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Renowned for his wit, rhetorical brilliance, and talent for ingenious paradox, Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.

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