The complete adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth collected in one brilliant volume Shabby & lumbering with a face like a Norfolk dumpling Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth But his innocence is the secret of his success refusing the scientific method of detection he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy interpreting each crime as a work of art & each criminal as a man no worse than himself This complete edition brings together all of the Father Brown stories including two not previously available in Penguin ' The Donnington Affair' in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solving a murder-mystery half written by someone else (Max Pemberton) & ' The Mask of Midas' which was found in Chesterton's papers after his death It also
Includes:: an introduction & notes by Michael D Hurley GK Chesteron was born in 1874 He attended the Slade School of Art where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown before turning his hand to journalism A prolific writer throughout his life his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) & the Father Brown stories Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 & died in 1938 Michael D Hurley is a Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge & a Fellow of St Catharine's College He has written widely on English literature from the nineteenth century to the present day with an emphasis on poetry & poetics His book on G K Chesterton was published in 2011