The innocence of Father Brown [text (large print)] / G.K. Chesterton.

Title:

ISBN:

9781432856533

Personal Author:

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publication Information:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

Physical Description:

391 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Series numbering from Goodreads

Contents:

The blue cross -- The secret garden -- The queer feet -- The flying stars -- The invisible man -- The honor of Israel Gow -- The wrong shape -- The sins of Prince Saradine -- The hammer of god -- The eye of Apollo -- The sign of the broken sword -- The three tools of death.

Summary:

This first volume of G. K. Chesterton's mysteries marks the debut of a most unusual detective: Father Paul Brown, a short, stumpy priest with an extraordinary and uncanny ability to spot the evil that lies in human hearts. In these twelve stories, Father Brown uses his wisdom, common sense, and experience as a confessor to solve baffling, fascinating crimes--and save lost souls along the way.

Personal Subject:

Brown, Father (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Geographic Term:

England -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Detective and mystery stories, English

Catholics -- Fiction

Clergy -- Fiction

Genre:

Large print books

Detective and mystery fiction

Cozy mysteries