The innocence of Father Brown
By G. K. Chesterton
Cover: Study of a Monk Representing the Catholic Faith (c. 1859), chalk drawing by Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1893)
G. K. Chesterton's 1911 collection introduces Father Brown, a mild priest who solves crimes by understanding human sin from the inside. A reader finds twelve ingenious, paradoxical stories, including the Blue Cross and the Invisible Man.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.