The Innocence of Father Brown

12 detective stories from the pen of Gilbert K. Chesterton

An outwardly unremarkable, portly and slightly ridiculous priest with little glasses, yet a brilliant detective whose rigorous logic and rationalism can solve even the most baffling of cases. In this first collection of Father Brown stories, you will find, in addition to the short stories The Secret Garden, The Hammer of God and The Three Tools of Death, the most famous one of all – The Blue Cross.