The complete adventures of the wellloved clerical sleuth, collected in one brilliant volume.Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable supersleuth. 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, and 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 murdermystery half written by someone else (Max Pemberton), and The Mask of Midas, which was found in Chestertons papers after his death. It also includes an introduction and notes by Michael D. Hurley.G.K. 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 bestknown books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922), The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) and the Father Brown stories. Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in 1938.Michael D. Hurley is a Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St Catharines College. He has written widely on English literature from the nineteenth century to the present day, with an emphasis on...

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