The Secret of Father Brown

"The Secret of Father Brown" (1927) is a collection of nine stories by G.K. Chesterton, featuring his empathetic detective Father Brown. Sherlock Holmes might be sexier, but GK Chesterton's atmospheric Father Brown stories are the best the genre has ever seen.

The 9 stories in this collection are:

"THE MIRROR OF THE MAGISTRATE"

"THE MAN WITH TWO BEARDS"

"THE SONG OF THE FLYING FISH"

"THE ACTOR AND THE ALIBI"

"THE VANISHING OF VAUDREY"

"THE WORST CRIME IN THE WORLD"

"THE RED MOON OF MERU"

"THE CHIEF MOURNER OF MARNE"

"THE SECRET OF FLAMBEAU"

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown. Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.