The Wisdom of Father Brown

Twelve detective stories by the English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1914. Father Brown, a small, absent-minded-looking Catholic priest, solves cases that baffle the police and the scientists, often with his friend Flambeau, a former criminal turned detective. A criminologist by the North Sea, a scientist accused of treason in Paris, travellers stopped by brigands in the mountains of Italy, an old Cornish family: each puzzle is solved through a detail no one else noticed and a deep understanding of the human heart. Lively stories, full of humour and paradox.