# The Complete Father Brown Stories

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- Authors: [G. Chesterton](https://www.bookquiver.com/g-chesterton)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4195-993-1
- Published: 2012-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Shabby and 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, 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 murder-mystery half written by someone else (Max Pemberton), and 'The Mask of Midas', which was found in Chesterton's papers after his death.