Contents

Chronology

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Further Reading

A Note on the Text

The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)

1. The Blue Cross

2. The Secret Garden

3. The Queer Feet

4. The Flying Stars

5. The Invisible Man

6. The Honour of Israel Gow

7. The Wrong Shape

8. The Sins of Prince Saradine

9. The Hammer of God

10. The Eye of Apollo

11. The Sign of the Broken Sword

12. The Three Tools of Death

The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914)

1. The Absence of Mr Glass

2. The Paradise of Thieves

3. The Duel of Dr Hirsch

4. The Man in the Passage

5. The Mistake of the Machine

6. The Head of Cæsar

7. The Purple Wig

8. The Perishing of the Pendragons

9. The God of the Gongs

10. The Salad of Colonel Cray

11. The Strange Crime of John Boulnois

12. The Fairy Tale of Father Brown

The Donnington Affair (1914)

The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926)

1. The Resurrection of Father Brown

2. The Arrow of Heaven

3. The Oracle of the Dog

4. The Miracle of Moon Crescent

5. The Curse of the Golden Cross

6. The Dagger with Wings

7. The Doom of the Darnaways

8. The Ghost of Gideon Wise

The Secret of Father Brown (1927)

The Secret of Father Brown

1. The Mirror of the Magistrate

2. The Man with Two Beards

3. The Song of the Flying Fish

4. The Actor and the Alibi

5. The Vanishing of Vaudrey

6. The Worst Crime in the World

7. The Red Moon of Meru

8. The Chief Mourner of Marne

The Secret of Flambeau

The Scandal of Father Brown (1935)

1. The Scandal of Father Brown

2. The Quick One

3. The Blast of the Book

4. The Green Man

5. The Pursuit of Mr Blue

6. The Crime of the Communist

7. The Point of a Pin

8. The Insoluble Problem

The Vampire of the Village (1936)

The Mask of Midas (1936)

Notes