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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

巴黎警探追捕大盗。巴黎警察局长瓦伦丁来到英国。他要逮捕弗兰博——一个身材魁梧、总能逃脱警方追捕的大盗。

The world of the book

1910年前后的英国。本书收录了十二个短篇案件,故事都发生在成书的年代。有几篇发生在伦敦:一家巨富俱乐部举行晚宴的豪华酒店、一条落雪的街道、一座圣诞节时的家宅。另一些则把布朗神父带到英格兰东部的一条小河上、苏格兰的一座城堡里,以及巴黎的一座花园中。

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