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The Innocence of Father Brown

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown

Paper book: €30.99

Digital: €10.99

Original publication
1911
Bilingual edition
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

A Paris policeman hunts a thief. Valentin, head of the Paris police, arrives in England. He wants to arrest Flambeau, a very tall thief who always escapes the police.

The world of the book

England around 1910. The book brings together twelve short mysteries, set in the time when they were written. Several take place in London: in a grand hotel where a club of very rich men dines, in a street under snow…

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