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G. K. Chesterton's celebrity priest-detective returns in The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), the third of five collections of short stories featuring Father Brown. The book begins with reports of Father Brown's death in "The Resurrection of Father Brown" and includes the... Read Full Overview

The Incredulity of Father Brown is a collection of eight stories by G. K. Chesterton, the third-published collection featuring the fictional detective Father Brown. It was first published as a book in 1926 by Cassell of London, whose monthly Cassell's Magazine featured the... Read Full Overview

The Incredulity of Father Brown is a 1926 collection of mystery short stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton.

Set in the early twentieth century, each of the stories centers around the cunning investigations of Father Brown, an amateur detective who... Read Full Overview

Chesterton admiraba a Conan Doyle y por supuesto a las historias de Sherlock Holmes. Sin embargo, con el padre Brown logr un personaje que se aleja y muchas veces se opone a las caracter sticas de Holmes. Ya hemos esbozado el aspecto del personaje central: sacerdote cat lico,... Read Full Overview

The Incredulity of Father Brown is a collection of eight stories by G. K. Chesterton, the third-published collection featuring the fictional detective Father Brown. It was first published as a book in 1926 by Cassell of London, whose monthly Cassell's Magazine featured the... Read Full Overview

John Adams Race knows what he saw. Looking out of his window one night he sees two suspicious men following Father Brown to a bridge. There are sounds of a fight, the two men disappear-leaving only the body of the priest behind. Or, is there more to the mystery of Father Brown's... Read Full Overview

Father Brown, full-time Catholic priest and part-time amateur detective, returns in this third collection of short stories by G. K. Chesterton. Unlike the first two collections, this time Father Brown is investigating alone; his sidekick, the former criminal Flambeau, is nowhere... Read Full Overview

Father Brown, a full-time Catholic priest, and part-time amateur detective returns in this third collection of short stories by G. K. Chesterton. This time Father Brown is investigating alone; his sidekick, the former criminal Flambeau, is nowhere to be seen. Father Brown has... Read Full Overview

Father Brown, full-time Catholic priest and part-time amateur detective, returns in this third collection of short stories. Unlike the first two collections, this time Father Brown is investigating alone; his sidekick, the former criminal Flambeau, is nowhere to be seen. Father... Read Full Overview

Continuano con questa terza serie le avventure filosofico-poliziesco del piccolo prete cattolico, alle prese con tutto ci che si dice "soprannaturale". Come dice pi volte Padre Brown nel corso delle sue avventure, "un conto essere credenti, un conto essere creduloni", per... Read Full Overview

"Those who are quick in talking are not always quick in listening." -G. K. Chesterton, "The Oracle of the Dog" The Incredulity of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton (1926) is the third in a collection of eight mysteries featuring Father Brown, a detective the author created to... Read Full Overview

John Adams Race knows what he saw. Looking out of his window one night he sees two suspicious men following Father Brown to a bridge. There are sounds of a fight, the two men disappear-leaving only the body of the priest behind. Or, is there more to the mystery of Father... Read Full Overview