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  • Published: 12 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141193854
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $27.99

The Complete Father Brown Stories





The adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in a single volume and introduced by Michael D. Hurley

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself. This complete edition brings together all of the Father Brown stories, including two not previously available in Penguin: 'The Donnington Affair', in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solving a murder-mystery half written by someone else (Max Pemberton), and 'The Mask of Midas', which was found in Chesterton's papers after his death.

  • Published: 12 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141193854
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $27.99

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