ISBN: 9781596880467
Father Brown is Chesterton's mischievous priest-detective and a worthy rival of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. This collection of 12 stories involves voodoo, political scandal and even murder set in places like Tuscany, London, and Chicago.
The stories in this collection include:
1. The Absence of Mr. Glass, p. 1
2. The Paradise of Thieves, p. 20
3. The Duel of Dr. Hirsch, p. 43
4. The Man in the Passage, p. 63
5. The Mistake of the Machine, p. 85
6. The Head of Caesar, p. 105
7. The Purple Wig, p. 126
8. The Perishing of the Pendragons, p. 144
9. The God of the Gongs, p. 169
10. The Salad of Colonel Cray, p. 189
11. The Strange Crime of John Boulnois, p. 207
12. The Fairy Tale of Father Brown, p. 227
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) established himself as a controversial journalist before he began writing fiction in 1904. His best known character is Father Brown, a quiet and unassuming Catholic priest-detective, whom he immortalized in several volumes of short stories. Chesterton also wrote poetry and literary criticism and was a lifelong friend of essayist and poet Hilaire Belloc.