The Wisdom of Father Brown

Father Brown is back in The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), the second of five collections of short stories featuring G. K. Chesterton's unlikely, lovable priest-detective. Included are "The Paradise of Thieves" and "The Purple Wig," which frequently rank among Chesterton's top ten tales. Along with his sidekick, reformed criminal M. Hercule Flambeau, Father Brown employs his legendary intuition and insight into the criminal mind to unerringly solve even the most baffling of mysteries-among them the perplexing case of a man who was shot without firearms and the eerie tale of the Spaniard's curse. List of Stories included here are mentioned below: "The Absence of Mr Glass", "The Paradise of Thieves", "The Duel of Dr Hirsch" "The Man in the Passage", "The Mistake of the Machine" "The Head of Caesar", "The Purple Wig", "The Perishing of the Pendragons", "The God of the Gongs" "The Salad of Colonel Cray" "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois", "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown".

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