"The Invisible Man", The Saturday Evening Post, 28 January 1911. "The Flying Stars", The Saturday Evening Post. "The Queer Feet", The Story-Teller, November 1910. The Innocence of Father Brown, 1911 "The Blue Cross", The Story-Teller, September 1910 first published as "Valentin Follows a Curious Trail", The Saturday Evening Post, 23 July 1910 "The Secret Garden", The Story-Teller, October 1910. The following is the list of Father Brown stories included in this volume: 1. This volume contains ALL OF FATHER BROWN STORIES, included the three stories left out of most collections: "The Donnington Affair" "The Vampire of the Village" "The Mask of Midas". Unlike the more famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown's methods tend to be intuitive rather than deductive. Father Brown is a short, stumpy Roman Catholic Church priest, "formerly of Cobhole in Essex, and now working in London", with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor (1870-1952), a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922. Chesterton, who stars in 51 detective short stories (and two framing vignettes). This volume contains the 53 stories of Father Brown, the beloved character created by English novelist G.
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