Innocence of Father Brown (Chesterton)

Author: G. K. Chesterton

ISBN: 9781954525573

Binding: paperback

Section: Mystery/Suspense

Quirky, affable, and insightful, Father Brown made his first appearance in the short story “The Blue Cross” in 1910. The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) collects this story and eleven others in what is the first of five Father Brown volumes. Chesterton describes his unlikely crack detective as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes, a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into the criminal mind. Characteristically humble and usually rather quiet, except to say something profound, Father Brown relies more on intuition than deduction to solve mysteries, often assisted by the reformed criminal M. Hercule Flambeau.