G. K. Chesterton
The Paradise of Thieves
Muscari walked into his favourite restaurant overlooking the Mediterranean and saw an elderly man with a boiled blue eye and faded grey-sandy moustaches. Ethel Harrogate was proud of her father's...
The Three Tools of Death
Father Brown knew better than most of us, and when his man-servant Magnus appeared on the ridge above the engine, he was compelled to confess that the other inmates were as shadows of their...
The Salad of Colonel Cray
Father Brown was made of two men, but Major Putnam was a bald-headed, bull-necked man, short and very broad, with a kind of innocent grin on his face. He led the way into his house without further...
The Flying Stars
The last crime of the notorious thief Flambeau was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cosy, English middle-class crime.
The Secret Garden
A decapitated body is found during a dinner party at the house of the Chief of the Paris Police, in the walled garden. Father Brown is a gu
The Blue Cross
Hot on the trail of master criminal Flambeau, the head of the Paris police arrives in London, where he begins to notice small things out of
The Invisible Man
Threatening notes are sent to a brilliant inventor, apparently from a former rival for the affections of a young lady.
The Queer Steps
Confined to a room in an exclusive club during an important dinner, Father Brown notices some unusual sounding footsteps.