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The Innocence of Father Brown

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown

Paper book: €24.99

Digital: €5.99

Original publication
1911
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
592
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Crime and Thriller
Moods
Solve a mystery
Translated from
English

Book summary

Father Brown is a small, clumsy Catholic priest, always weighed down by a big umbrella, and no one suspects him. Yet he is the one who unmasks criminals where the police fail: a disguised master thief, a murderer no one saw come in, a crime committed at the foot of a church.

His secret: from listening to so many confessions, he knows evil better than anyone. These twelve short cases have made him one of the most endearing detectives in literature.

You can read each case in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

Um policial de Paris persegue um ladrão. Valentin, o chefe da polícia de Paris, chega à Inglaterra. Ele quer prender Flambeau, um ladrão gigantesco que sempre escapa da polícia.

The world of the book

Inglaterra, cerca de 1910. O livro reúne doze investigações curtas, que se passam na época em que foram escritas. Várias acontecem em Londres: num grande hotel onde janta um clube de homens muito ricos, numa rua…

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