The Secret Of Father Brown.

G.K. CHESTERTON

Publication: Cassell & Company, Ltd, 1927, London

First edition. Moderate mottling to front and rear boards, else very good in fine facsimile dust jacket. A new series of adventures and mysteries featuring Father Brown, an ordinary priest with an extraordinary ability to solve crimes. These new stories have a delightful funny twist and are built around puzzling crimes. The eight stories are framed by a prologue and an epilogue in which while Father Brown is visiting Flambeau's home in France, he is asked for the secret to how he solves his cases. The eight tales that follow are the memories that Father Brown recalls while conversing. All of the tales demonstrate Father Brown's "unique" method of deduction. The stories include, "The Mirror of the Magistrate," "The Man with Two Beards," "The Song of the Flying Fish," " The Actor and the Alibi," "The Vanishing of Vaudrey," "The Worst Crime in the World," "The Red Moon of Meru," "The Chief Mourner of Marne," and "The Secret of Flambeau."

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