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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

巴黎警探追捕大盜。巴黎警察局長瓦倫丁來到英國。他要逮捕弗蘭博——一個身材魁梧、總能逃脫警方追捕的大盜。

The world of the book

1910年前後的英國。本書收錄了十二個短篇案件,故事都發生在成書的年代。有幾篇發生在倫敦:一家巨富俱樂部舉行晚宴的豪華飯店、一條落雪的街道、一座聖誕節時的宅邸。另一些則把布朗神父帶到英格蘭東部的一條小河上、蘇格蘭的一座城堡裡,以及巴黎的一座花園中。

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