The Complete Father Brown Mysteries Collection

OVERVIEWbr/br/This collection bring together all the Father Brown mysteries of G.K. Chesterton in a single, convenient, high quality, but extremely low priced Nook volume!br/br/Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 #x2013; 14 June 1936) was an English writer whose prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction, namely with his exceedingly popular Father Brown short [stories.br/br/Father](http://stories.br/br/Father) Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, has uncanny insight into human [evil.br/Father](http://evil.br/Father) Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths rather than scientific details, making him an almost equal counterbalance with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whose stories Chesterton read and admired. Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for conveying Chesterton's view of the world and, of all of his characters, is perhaps closest to Chesterton's own point of view, or at least the effect of his point of view. br/br/br/EXCERPTbr/br/"Six people sat around a small table, seeming almost as incongruous and accidental as if they had been shipwrecked separately on the same small desert island. At least the sea surrounded them; for in one sense their island was enclosed in another island, a large and flying island like Laputa. For the little table was one of many little tables dotted about in the dining saloon of that monstrous ship the Moravia, speeding through the night and the everlasting emptiness of the Atlantic. The little company had nothing in common except that all were travelling from America to England. Two of them at least might be called celebrities; others might be called obscure, and in one or two cases even [dubious.br/br/The](http://dubious.br/br/The) first was the famous Professor Smaill, an authority on certain archaeological studies touching the later Byzantine Empire. His lectures, delivered in an American University, were accepted as of the first authority even in the most authoritative seats of learning in Europe. His literary works were so steeped in a mellow and imaginative sympathy with the European past, that it often gave strangers a start to hear him speak with an American accent. Yet he was, in his way, very American; he had long fair hair brushed back from a big square forehead, long straight features and a curious mixture of preoccupation with a poise of potential swiftness, like a lion pondering absent-mindedly on his next [leap.br/br/There](http://leap.br/br/There) was only one lady in the group; and she was (as the journalists often said of her) a host in herself; being quite prepared to play hostess, not to say empress, at that or any other table. She was Lady Diana Wales, the celebrated lady traveller."br/br/br/TABLE OF CONTENTSbr/br/THE COMPLETE FATHER BROWN MYSTERIESbr/By G.K. Chestertonbr/br/The Innocence of Father Brownbr/The Blue Crossbr/The Secret Gardenbr/The Queer Feetbr/The Flying Starsbr/The Invisible Manbr/The Honour of Israel Gowbr/The Wrong Shapebr/The Sins of Prince Saradinebr/The Hammer of Godbr/The Eye of Apollobr/The Sign of the Broken Swordbr/The Three Tools of Deathbr/br/The Wisdom of Father Brownbr/The Absence of Mr Glassbr/The Paradise of Thievesbr/The Duel of Dr Hirschbr/The Man in the Passagebr/The Mistake of the Machinebr/The Head of Caesarbr/The Purple Wigbr/The Perishing of the Pendragonsbr/The God of the Gongsbr/The Salad of Colonel Craybr/The Strange Crime of John Boulnoisbr/The Fairy Tale of Father Brownbr/br/The Incredulity of Father Brownbr/The Resurrection of Father Brownbr/The Arrow of Heavenbr/The Oracle of the Dogbr/The Miracle of Moon Crescentbr/The Curse of the Golden Crossbr/The Dagger with Wingsbr/The Doom of the Darnawaysbr/The Ghost of Gideon Wisebr/br/The Secret of Father Brownbr/The Secret of Father Brownbr/The Mirror of the Magistratebr/The Man With Two Beardsbr/The Song of the Flying Fishbr/The Actor and the Alibibr/The Vanishing of Vaudreybr/The Worst Crime in the Worldbr/The Red Moon of Merubr/The Chief Mourner of Marnebr/The Secret of Flambeaubr/br/The Scandal of Father Brownbr/The Scandal of Father Brownbr/The Quick Onebr/The Blast of the Bookbr/The Green Manbr/The Pursuit of Mr Bluebr/The Crime of the Communistbr/The Point of a Pinbr/The Insoluble Problembr/The Vampire of the Villagebr/br/Annotations: G.K. Chesterton#x2019;s Literary Legacy