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The wisdom of Father Brown

By G. K. Chesterton

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Cover: Green and Violet: Mrs. Walter Sickert (1894), oil on canvas by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1903)

G. K. Chesterton's second Father Brown collection, from 1914, sends the unassuming priest to a dozen more puzzles. A reader finds humour, paradox and moral surprise.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: ONE -- The Absence of Mr Glass
  2. 2: TWO. -- The Paradise of Thieves
  3. 3: THREE -- The Duel of Dr Hirsch
  4. 4: FOUR -- The Man in the Passage
  5. 5: FIVE -- The Mistake of the Machine
  6. 6: SIX -- The Head of Caesar
  7. 7: SEVEN -- The Purple Wig
  8. 8: EIGHT -- The Perishing of the Pendragons
  9. 9: NINE -- The God of the Gongs
  10. 10: TEN -- The Salad of Colonel Cray
  11. 11: ELEVEN -- The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
  12. 12: TWELVE -- The Fairy Tale of Father Brown