- 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