The Complete Father Brown Stories

Critic, author, and debunker extraordinaire, G. K. Chesterton (1874 1936) delighted in probing the ambiguities of Christian theology. A number of his most successful attempts at combining first-rate fiction with acute social observation appear in this compilation of detective stories featuring the priest-sleuth Father Brown.
A Chestertonian version of Sherlock Holmes, this little cleric from Essex with “a face as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling” and “eyes as empty as the North Sea” first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. This collection contains all of the Father Brown stories, showing the quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner.