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Father Brown Short Stories by G. K. Chesterton (2019, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherArcturus Publishing

ISBN-101788886593

ISBN-139781788886598

eBay Product ID (ePID)9038560119

Product Key Features

Book TitleFather Brown Short Stories

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Mystery & Detective / Traditional

Publication Year2019

GenreFiction

AuthorG.K. Chesterton

Book SeriesClassic Short Stories Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number3

Dewey Decimal823.912

Table Of ContentPart I: The Innocence of Father Brown The Blue Cross The Secret Garden The Queer Feet The Flying Stars The Invisible Man The Honour of Israel Gow The Wrong Shape The Sins of Prince Saradine The Hammer of God The Eye of Apollo The Sign of the Broken Sword The Tree Tools of Death Part II The Wisdom of Father Brown The Absence of Mr Glass The Paradise of Thieves The Duel of Mr 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

SynopsisG. K. Chesterton's fictional amateur detective, the genial Father Brown, was greeted with huge enthusiasm when he first appeared in The Story-Teller magazine in 1910. Depicted with Chesterton's characteristic elegance and wit, this unworldly but perceptive priest-sleuth soon became a major figure in the world of whodunit fiction and continues to charm readers today. This anthology contains 24 Father Brown short stories, including 'The Blue Cross', 'The Secret Garden', 'The Wrong Shape', and 'The Three Tools of Death', in which the unassuming Father exercises his formidable powers of intuition and analysis to solve a range of crimes., The Father Brown stories have been adapted for television multiple times, including an adaptation for the BBC beginning in 2012 and featuring ten episodes commissioned for 2018. There are a number of G.K. Chesterton societies throughout the world., G. K. Chesterton's fictional amateur detective, the genial Father Brown, was greeted with huge enthusiasm when he first appeared in The Story-Teller magazine in 1910. Depicted with Chesterton's characteristic elegance and wit, this unworldly but perceptive priest-sleuth soon became a major figure in the world of whodunit fiction and continues to charm readers today. This handsome hardback anthology contains 24 Father Brown short stories, including 'The Blue Cross', 'The Secret Garden', 'The Wrong Shape', and 'The Three Tools of Death', in which the unassuming Father exercises his formidable powers of intuition and analysis to solve a range of crimes.