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Father Brown Short Stories (Classic Short Stories)
Father Brown Short Stories - Classic Short Stories Author:G. K. Chesterton Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be unaware of human evil? In typically understated style, Father Brown gives a clue to the secret of his remarkable crime-solving abilities. — Namely, that a priest who listens in silence to the confessions of others is a force to be reckoned... more » with. The Father's success is rooted in the study of human behaviour, rather than the dazzling intellectual talent of say, a Sherlock Holmes.
G. K. Chesterton's fictional amateur detective, the genial Father Brown, was greeted with huge enthusiasm when he first appeared in The Story-Teller magazine in 1910. Depicted with Chesterton's characteristic elegance and wit, this unworldly but perceptive priest-sleuth soon became a major figure in the world of whodunit fiction and continues to charm readers today.
This anthology contains 24 Father Brown short stories, including "The Blue Cross," "The Secret Garden," "The Wrong Shape," and "The Three Tools of Death," in which the unassuming Father exercises his formidable powers of intuition and analysis to solve a range of crimes.« less