From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs to earth bandits, traitors, killers. Why is he so successful?
The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.
The stories included are "The Paradise of Thieves," «The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," «The Man in the Passage," «The Mistakes of the Machine," «The Head of the Caesar," “The Purple Wig,” «The Perishing of the Pendragons,” «The God of the Gongs,” «The Salad of the Colonel Cray,” «The Strange Crime of John Boulnois” and "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown.”
The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.
The stories included are "The Paradise of Thieves," «The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," «The Man in the Passage," «The Mistakes of the Machine," «The Head of the Caesar," “The Purple Wig,” «The Perishing of the Pendragons,” «The God of the Gongs,” «The Salad of the Colonel Cray,” «The Strange Crime of John Boulnois” and "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown.”
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Despite his prosaic appearance and generally practical walk of life, Father Brown was not without a certain streak of romance in his composition, though he generally kept his daydreams to himself, as many children do.
"I know," assented the other, "but one often has to choose between feeling a damned fool and being one."
He thinks no more about such things than—than an absent-minded lion.