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The Secret of Father Brown

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Secret of Father Brown

Paper book: €26.99

Digital: €10.99

Original publication
1927
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
466
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Adventure
Moods
Solve a mystery
Translated from
English

Book summary

Father Brown, a small priest with an absent-minded air, solves the crimes the police cannot understand. One day, an American visitor finally asks him for his secret. The priest's answer is surprising: to find the culprit, he puts himself in his shoes, to the point of imagining that he committed the crime himself.

This collection brings together eight short cases, such as “The Mirror of the Magistrate” and “The Man with Two Beards”. In Chesterton's stories, cleverness counts for less than knowledge of the human heart.

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

The plot

A priest detective reveals his secret. Once a great criminal in France, Flambeau now lives peacefully in Spain. His old friend Father Brown, an English priest, comes to visit him.

The world of the book

England in the 1920s. The book brings together eight short mysteries, set mostly in England at the time it was written. We go backstage at a theatre, into a village surrounded by fields, to a fête where a…

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