The complete adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in one bril
liant volume. 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 h
is success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an ap
proach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each cr
iminal as a man no worse than himself.
This complete edition brings together
all of the Father Brown stories, including two not previously available in Pengu
in: 'The Donnington Affair', in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solvi
ng 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. It also inclu
des an introduction and notes by Michael D. Hurley.
