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The Wisdom of Father Brown

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Wisdom of Father Brown

Paper book: €30.99

Digital: €13.99

Original publication
1914
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
539
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Philosophy
Moods
Solve a mystery, Think it through
Translated from
English

Book summary

Father Brown, a small Catholic priest with an absent-minded air, solves cases that baffle the police and the experts, often with his friend Flambeau, a former thief turned detective. A scientist accused of treason in Paris, travellers held up by brigands in the mountains of Italy, an old Cornish family: each puzzle is solved thanks to a detail no one else noticed.

Twelve detective stories full of humour and paradox, in which this quiet priest, who knows the human heart well, guesses the truth before anyone else.

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

The plot

Three witnesses saw the same figure. In London, a famous actress is killed in the narrow passage that runs beside her theatre. At the moment of the crime, three men saw a dark figure in that passage. At the trial, the…

The world of the book

Twelve cases across Europe. The book brings together twelve cases set around 1910. Father Brown, a small English Catholic priest, often travels with his friend Flambeau, a former thief. We follow them to the North Sea…

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