Innocence of Father Brown

This first collection of Father Brown mysteries, widely considered the author's best, includes "e;The Blue Cross"e; "e;The Hammer of God,"e; "e;The Eye of Apollo"e; and more. Father Brown is the opposite of Sherlock Holmes-the quiet, nondescript little priest whom nobody noti [...]
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This first collection of Father Brown mysteries, widely considered the author's best, includes "e;The Blue Cross"e; "e;The Hammer of God,"e; "e;The Eye of Apollo"e; and more. Father Brown is the opposite of Sherlock Holmes-the quiet, nondescript little priest whom nobody notices. Father Brown is a short, stumpy Catholic priest, "e;formerly of Cobhole in Essex, and now working in London,"e; with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and uncanny insight into human evil. Father Brown is characteristically humble, and is usually rather quiet; when he does talk, he almost always says something profound. Although he tends to handle crimes with a steady, realistic approach, he believes in the supernatural as the greatest reason of all. Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for conveying Chesterton's view of the world. Father Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths rather than scientific details.