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      The Wisdom of Father Brown

      by G.K. Chesterton
      Published
      Jan 1976
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      Suspense Suspense
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      208
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      Father Brown

      About This Book

      Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936). Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature.

      The Wisdom of Father Brown is a compilation of stories by G. K. Chesterton published in 1914. The stories included are „The Paradise of Thieves," „The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," „The Man in the Passage," „The Mistakes of the Machine," „The Head of the Caesar," „The Purple Wig," „The Perishing of the Pendragons," „The God of the Gongs," „The Salad of the Colonel Cray," „The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" and „The Fairy Tale of Father Brown."

      The size of the eBook is about 330 pages.

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      Mystery Traditional British

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