G. K. Chesterton 
The Wisdom of Father Brown 

Father Brown is back in The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), the second of five collections of short stories featuring G. K. Chesterton’s unlikely, lovable priest-detective. Included are ‘The Paradise of Thieves’ and ‘The Purple Wig, ‘ which frequently rank among Chesterton’s top ten tales.

Along with his sidekick, reformed criminal M. Hercule Flambeau, Father Brown employs his legendary intuition and insight into the criminal mind to unerringly solve even the most baffling of mysteries-among them the perplexing case of a man who was shot without firearms and the eerie tale of the Spaniard’s curse.

List of Stories included here are mentioned below:

‘The Absence of Mr Glass’,
‘The Paradise of Thieves’,
‘The Duel of Dr 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’.

About the author

G. K. Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher and literary and art critic. Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown. He decided to follow art as a career, and studied at the Slade School, where, while attending or not attending to his studies, he met Ernest Hodder-Williams, who encouraged Chesterton in his writing. At his request he reviewed a number of books for the Bookman and found himself launched on a profession he was to follow all his life. Probably his most famous stories are those of Father Brown, but he wrote much about every conceivable subject under or beyond the sun. His fiction works would sell well, with titles such as ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’, a thriller combining espionage and metaphysics, and ‘The Everlasting Man’, which chronicles mankind’s spiritual journey.