The innocence of Father Brown / G.K. Chesterton.
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TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublisher: London : Penguin Classics, 2013Copyright date: ©[2013]Description: 263 pages ; 19 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141393261 (paperback); 0141393262 (paperback)Subject(s): Catholic Church -- England -- Clergy -- Fiction | Brown, Father (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Priests -- England -- Fiction | Detective and mystery stories, EnglishGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Short stories. DDC classification: 823.912 Summary: CRIME & MYSTERY. This is the first volume of Chesterton's brilliant, ingenious Father Brown stories. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of the original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers. With his round face, pipe and umbrella, the shambling, bespectacled priest Father Brown is an unlikely detective - yet his innocent air hides a razor-sharp understanding of the criminal mind. As this first volume of his adventures shows, the wise, worldly clerical sleuth has an uncanny ability to bring even the most elusive wrongdoer to justice. G. K. Chesterton was born in 1874. He attended the Slade School of Art, where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown, before turning his hand to journalism.
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First published in 1911.
CRIME & MYSTERY. This is the first volume of Chesterton's brilliant, ingenious Father Brown stories. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of the original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers. With his round face, pipe and umbrella, the shambling, bespectacled priest Father Brown is an unlikely detective - yet his innocent air hides a razor-sharp understanding of the criminal mind. As this first volume of his adventures shows, the wise, worldly clerical sleuth has an uncanny ability to bring even the most elusive wrongdoer to justice. G. K. Chesterton was born in 1874. He attended the Slade School of Art, where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown, before turning his hand to journalism.
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