The Innocence of Father Brown
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- First published
- 1911
- Pages
- 195
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01 - The Blue Cross
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02 - The Secret Garden
61:10 -
03 - The Queer Feet
58:37 -
04 - The Flying Stars
42:02 -
05 - The Invisible Man
49:38 -
06 - The Honour of Israel Gow
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07 - The Wrong Shape
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08 - The Sins of Prince Saradine
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09 - The Hammer of God
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10 - The Eye of Apollo
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11 - The Sign of the Broken Sword
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12 - The Three Tools of Death
42:03
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is a public domain work.
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About this book
G.K. Chesterton's first Father Brown collection appeared in 1911, and it set the template for the next four decades of detective fiction in a quietly Catholic register. The detective is a short, dumpy, perpetually distracted Catholic priest, modeled on Chesterton's real friend Father John O'Connor. Father Brown solves crimes not through deduction in the Holmes mode but through a kind of moral imagination: he understands sin from the inside, having heard everything in the confessional, and that lets him reconstruct what a particular kind of human being would do under particular pressures.
The twelve stories in this opening volume include some of the most famous in the canon. The Blue Cross introduces Brown's nemesis-turned-friend Flambeau, a French master thief. The Secret Garden has Brown solving an impossible murder at a French ambassador's dinner party. The Hammer of God is a tightly written village murder with a piece of theology at its centre. The Wrong Shape involves an exotic dagger and a poet's death. Chesterton's prose is dense, paradoxical, full of small jokes and big arguments, and the collection runs short enough that the strangeness never wears out its welcome. Start the series here.
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Book facts
- Author
- G.K. Chesterton
- First published
- 1911
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 195
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Detective Books
- Series
- Father Brown
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Brian Roberg