The Secret of Father Brown - Chesterton, G. K.
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The Secret of Father Brown is the fourth collection of short stories in G. K. Chesterton's famous detective series, and the volume reveals the truth behind the Roman Catholic priest's ingenious crime-solving abilities. When an American writer approaches Father Brown and asks him the secret of his excellent detective work, the modest clergyman decides it is time to reveal his methods. This collection of ten short stories is framed by the revelation of the priest's secret, the subsequent stories that evidence this, and finally, a concluding story that revisits Father Brown's confession. This…mehr

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The Secret of Father Brown is the fourth collection of short stories in G. K. Chesterton's famous detective series, and the volume reveals the truth behind the Roman Catholic priest's ingenious crime-solving abilities. When an American writer approaches Father Brown and asks him the secret of his excellent detective work, the modest clergyman decides it is time to reveal his methods. This collection of ten short stories is framed by the revelation of the priest's secret, the subsequent stories that evidence this, and finally, a concluding story that revisits Father Brown's confession. This collection features ten short stories: - 'The Secret of Father Brown' - 'The Mirror of the Magistrate' - 'The Man with Two Beards' - 'The Song of the Flying Fish' - 'The Actor and the Alibi' - 'The Vanishing of Vaudrey' - 'The Worst Crime in the World' - 'The Red Moon of Meru' - 'The Cheif Mourner of Marne' - 'The Secret of Flambeau' Featuring the charming wit and insight that characterise G. K. Chesterton's remarkable Father Brown Series, this volume is an intricately written collection of short detective stories first published in 1927. With horrendous and complex crimes of murder, mistaken identity, and duels, these short stories are not to be missed by fans of crime fiction.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He is best known in mystery circles as the creator of the fictional priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Often referred to as "the prince of paradox," Chesterton frequently made his points by turning familiar sayings and proverbs inside out. Chesterton attended the Slade School of Art, a department of University College London, where he took classes in illustration and literature, though he did not complete a degree in either subject. In 1895, at the age of twenty-one, he began working for the London publisher George Redway. A year later he moved to another publisher, T. Fisher Unwin, where he undertook his first work in journalism, illustration, and literary criticism. In addition to writing fifty-three Father Brown stories, Chesterton authored articles and books of social criticism, philosophy, theology, economics, literary criticism, biography, and poetry.