The Innocence Of Father Brown

The Innocence of Father Brown is the first volume in G.K. Chesterton's series of short stories that chronicle the adventures and mishaps of Father Brown. Small, round-faced and engagingly innocent, Father Brown is a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia. He also happens to be a top-hole detective, possessing that rarest of all gifts-an intuition that never fails. The criminal he seeks is Flambeau, a master of disguise, fleet of foot and clever enough to have confounded the police in at least three different countries. But even Flambeau must surely fail to outwit the gentle man of God whose name has become synonymous with detective-storywriting at its most entertaining and enduring