Research Catalog

Title

The complete Father Brown stories / G. K. Chesterton ; edited and with an introduction by Michael D. Hurley.

Author

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Penguin Classics, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hurley, Michael D.
• Hurley, Michael D. (Michael Dominic), 1976-

Description

xxxiv, 827 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular way of dealing with crime.

Subject

• Brown, Father (Fictitious character) > Fiction
• Priests > Fiction
• Detective and mystery stories, English

Genre/Form

• Detective and mystery stories.
• Dectective fiction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxxi).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The innocence of Father Brown (1911) The blue cross ; The secret garden ; The queer feet ; The flying stars ; The invisible man ; The honour of Israel Gow ; The wrong shape ; The sins of Prince Saradine ; The hammer of God ; The eye of Apollo ; The sign of the broken sword ; The three tools of death -- The wisdom of Father Brown (1914) The absence of Mr Glass ; The paradise of thieves ; The duel of Dr Hirsch ; The man in the passage ; The mistake of the machine ; The head of the Caesar ; The purple wig ; The perishing of the Pendragons ; The God of the Gongs ; The salad of Colonel Cray ; The strange crime of John Boulnois ; The fairy tale of Father Brown -- The Donnington affair (1914) -- The incredulity of Father Brown (1926). The resurrection of Father Brown ; The arrow of heaven ; The oracle of the dog ; The miracle of Moon Crescent.
• Contents note continued: The curse of the golden cross ; The dagger with wings ; The doom of the Darnaways ; The ghost of Gideon Wise -- The secret of Father Brown (1927). The secret of Father Brown The mirror of the Magistrate ; The man with two beards ; The song of the flying fish ; The actor and the alibi ; The vanishing of Vaudrey ; The worst crime in the world ; The red moon of Meru ; The chief mourner of Marne ; The secret of Flambeau -- The scandal of Father Brown (1935). The scandal of Father Brown ; The quick one ; The blast of the book ; The green man ; The pursuit of Mr Blue ; The crime of the communist ; The point of a pin ; The insoluble problem -- The vampire of the village (1936) -- The mask of Midas (1936).

ISBN

• 9780141193854
• 0141193859

OCLC

• 759911228
• SCSB-12806650

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library