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The Innocence of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton
read by Frederick Davidson
Part 1 of the Father Brown series
Detective fans of all races and creeds, of all tastes and fancies will delight in the exploits of this wise and whimsical padre. Father Brown's powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes, but he is also "in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being," according to American crime novelist Rufus King. You will be enchanted by the scandalously innocent man of the cloth, with his handy umbrella, who exhibits such uncanny insight into ingeniously tricky human problems.
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The Innocence of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton
read by Gordon Griffin
Part 1 of the Father Brown series
First published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown contains stories involving one of the greatest characters in the history of detective fiction, Father Brown. He is a Roman Catholic priest, and has an uncanny insight to human evil. Rather than the large serial villains in stories such as Sherlock Holmes, the mysteries Father Brown solved were more local murders by small town crooks, narrowing the suspect list down to those in the area of the crime. The cozy mystery style that The Innocence of Father Brown conveys sparked a revolution at the time, bringing it to the forefront of the detective fiction genre.
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton
read by Martin Clifton
Part 2 of the Father Brown series
The second volume of stories featuring the most unlikely detective in literature - now the basis for a major BBC TV adaptation starring Mark Williams.
The ingenious amateur detective Father Brown is put to the test again in this second collection of stories, which sees him solve cases featuring bandits, traitors, voodoo and murder, wrong-footing his opponents at every turn with his characteristic blend of mischievous humour and uncanny understanding of human foibles.
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton
read by Frederick Davidson
Part 2 of the Father Brown series
G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown is perhaps the most lovable amateur detective ever created. This short, shabby priest with his cherubic, round face attracts situations that baffle everyone-except Father Brown and his rather naïve wisdom.
The twelve enthralling stories in this book take Father Brown from London to Cornwall, from Italy to France, as he gets involved with bandits, treason, murder, curses, and an American crime-detection machine. And every problem he comes up against he solves with a simplicity of argument that leaves the other characters wondering, "Why didn't I think of that?"
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The Queer Feet
by G. K. Chesterton
read by James Arthur
Part of the Father Brown series
If you were to meet a mild, hard-working little priest, named Father Brown, and were to ask him what he thought was the most singular luck of his life, he would probably reply that upon the whole his best stroke was at the Vernon Hotel, where he had averted a crime and, perhaps, saved a soul, merely by listening to a few footsteps in a passage.
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The Perishing of the Pendragons
by G. K. Chesterton
read by David Clarke
Part of the Father Brown series
The Perishing of the Pendragons" by G.K. Chesterton is a Father Brown story where Father Brown is invited on a boat trip around the Cornish coast, where he encounters a family called the Pendragons, who are plagued by a mysterious curse tied to a local legend about a Spanish prisoner and a treacherous coastline; Father Brown must unravel the complex web of family secrets and a planned crime to prevent the curse from seemingly coming true, using his keen observation skills and understanding of human nature to identify the culprit.
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The Secret Garden
by G. K. Chesterton
read by James Arthur
Part of the Father Brown series
Aristide Valentin, Paris chief of police, has decided to stage a grand dinner party at his estate. The estate has only one entrance with a garden is protected by a high wall; there is no entering or leaving, except by the main entrance which is guarded by Valentin's steadfast servant. However, a murder most foul, a decapitation occurs, and it will be up to Father Brown to use all his wits to solve this heinous murder.
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The Blue Cross
by G. K. Chesterton
read by James Arthur
Part of the Father Brown series
Aristide Valentin, head of the Paris Police, is on the trail of the ingenious criminal and master of disguise, Flambeau. Valentin suspects that Flambeau is going to London steal precious religious articles. While traveling to London, Valentin overhears Father Brown tell a lady that he is carrying the "Blue Cross," a sterling silver cross covered in precious blue stones. Valentin warns Father Brown that it is dangerous to tell anyone that he is carrying an object of immense value. Valentin decides to tail Father Brown but loses him and there begins a desperate chase to avert a terrible crime.
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The Flying Stars
by G. K. Chesterton
read by James Arthur
Part of the Father Brown series
"My last crime was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cosy, English middle-class crime; a crime of Charles Dickens. I did it in a good old middle-class house, a house with a crescent of carriage drive, a house with a stable by the side of it, a house with the name on the two outer gates, a house with a monkey tree. Enough, you know the species." How does Father Brown solve the theft of three gorgeous, large diamonds by a boastful thief?
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The Hammer of God
by G. K. Chesterton
read by B. J. Harrison
Part of the Father Brown series
Will Father Brown discover who killed the well-to-do ne'er-do-well? It appears as though he was stricken with the hammer of God. Is that a thing?
G.K. Chesterton is most notable for his creation of Father Brown. This unlooked for, and often unwelcome, detective is actually not a detective. But rather, an individual self-trained to think as criminals think, for he has heard so many of their confessions. He knows how their minds work, and can piece together many things that others cannot.
This story is from the first collection of Father Brown Stories, The Innocence of Father Brown.
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The Purple Wig
by G. K. Chesterton
read by David Clarke
Part of the Father Brown series
In The Purple Wig, an investigative journalist, Frances Finn, sets out to discover the strange secret of the dukes of Exmoor and the legend of their mysterious hereditary deformed ear. When Finn meets the current duke, he is wearing a hideous purple wig, which apparently he never takes off in the presence of anybody. It would appear to be an ugly way of hiding his deformity...but Father Brown, who is visiting the duke at the time, is suspicious about the motives for wearing such a wig. As the investigation progresses, the story takes a highly unexpected turn.
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