Unassuming super-sleuth Father Brown has such brilliant powers of deduction that he knows more about crime than the criminals themselves. In this fourth volume of stories, the shabby priest unravels baffling conundrums involving, among others, a flying fish, a man with two beards and the Worst Crime in the World.
G.K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874 and was educated at St
Paul's School. He became a journalist and began writing for The
Speaker with his friend Hilaire Belloc. His first novel, The
Napoleon of Notting Hill, was published in 1904. In this book
Chesterton developed his political attitudes in which he attacked
socialism, big business and technology and showed how they become
the enemies of freedom and justice. These were themes which were to
run through his other works.
Chesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922. He explored his belief
in his many religious essays and books. The best known is
Orthodoxy, his personal spiritual odyssey.
His output was prolific. He wrote a great variety of books from
biographies on Shaw and Dickens to literary criticism. He also
produced poetry and many volumes of political, social and religious
essays. His style is marked by vigour, puns, paradoxes and a great
intelligence and personal modesty.
Chesterton is perhaps best known for his Father Brown stories.
Father Brown is a modest Catholic priest who uses careful
psychology to put himself in the place of the criminal in order to
solve the crime.
Chesterton died in 1936.
Chesterton knew how to make the most of a detective story
*Jorge Luis Borges*
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