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Index
Acknowledgments
Preface: All That Mysterious Stuff
Introduction
The Puppet Play of Spirit and Form
A Psychological/Mythological Interlude
One
Preludes to Father Brown
The Club of Queer Trades, 1905
1. “The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown”
2. “The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation”
3. “The Awful Reason of the Vicar’s Visit”
4. “The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent”
5. “The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd”
6. “The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady”
The Man Who Was Thursday, 1908
Two
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”
Three
The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914)
1. “The Absence of Mister 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 Caesar”
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”
13. “The Donnington Affair”
Four
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”
Five
The Secret of Father Brown (1927)
1. “The Secret of Father Brown”
2. “The Mirror of the Magistrate”
3. “The Man with Two Beards”
4. “The Song of the Flying Fish”
5. “The Actor and the Alibi”
6. “The Vanishing of Vaudrey”
7. “The Worst Crime in the World”
8. “The Red Moon of Meru”
9. “The Chief Mourner of Marne”
10. “The Secret of Flambeau”
Six
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”
9. “The Vampire of the Village”
The Best of Father Brown
Seven
Colors Other Than Brown
Manalive, 1912
“The Man Who Shot the Fox,” 1921
The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1922
1. “The Face in the Target”
2. “The Vanishing Prince”
3. “The Soul of the Schoolboy”
4. “The Bottomless Well”
5. “The Hole in the Wall”
6. “The Fad of the Fisherman”
7. “The Fool of the Family”
8. “The Vengeance of the Statue”
9. “The Trees of Pride”
10. “The Garden of Smoke”
11. “The Five of Swords”
12. “The Tower of Treason”
“The White Pillars Murder,” 1925
The Poet and the Lunatics, 1929
1. “The Fantastic Friends”
2. “The Yellow Bird”
3. “The Shadow of the Shark”
4. “The Crime of Gabriel Gale”
5. “The Finger of Stone”
6. “The House of the Peacock”
7. “The Purple Jewel”
8. “The Asylum of Adventure”
The Four Faultless Felons, 1930
1. “The Moderate Murderer”
2. “The Honest Quack”
3. “The Ecstatic Thief”
4. “The Loyal Traitor”
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond, 1936
1. “The Three Horsemen of Apocalypse”
2. “The Crime of Captain Gahagan”
3. “When Doctors Agree”
4. “Pond the Pantaloon”
5. “The Unmentionable Man”
6. “Ring of Lovers”
7. “The Terrible Troubadour”
8. “A Tall Story”
The Best of the Rest
Eight
Color, Crimes, and Chimeras
Color and Other Description
Criminals and Crimes
The Chimerical Imagination: Metaphor and Simile, Paradox, and Personification
The Chesterton Detective Stories
Bibliography
List of Names and Terms
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