The Innocence of Father Brown

“How in Tartarus,” cried Flambeau, “did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?” — “Oh, one’s little flock, you know!” said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. “When I was a curate in Hartlepool, there were three of them with spiked bracelets.” Not long after he published Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton moved from London to Beaconsfield, and met Father O’Connor. O’Connor had a shrewd insight to the darker side of man’s nature, and a mild appearance to go with it — and together those came together to become Chesterton’s unassuming Father Brown. Chesterton loved the character, and the magazones he wrote for loved the stories. The Innocence of Father Brown was the first collection of them, and it’s a great lot of fun. “Father Brown is a direct challenge to the conventional detective and in many ways he is more amusing and ingenious.” — Saturday Review

Author Biography

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine has observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories-first carefully turning them inside out.”