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Auf einer Italienreise wird die Kutsche des englischen Bankiers Samuel Harrogate vom berühmten Räuberhauptmann Montano entführt. Pech für den König der Diebe, dass in derselben Kutsche ausgerechnet Pater Brown sitzt, dem diese Entführung irgendwie merkwürdig vorkommt.

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime....

Diminutive, bespectacled, and endearing, Father Brown only appears unworldly. But the cherubic parish priest is privy to the inner workings of the most surprising of sinners. And as an amateur sleuth, he intuits motives for Essex's unsolvable crimes....

A fictional priest and amateur detective named Father Brown had a face once described “as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling”. This made him appear somewhat clumsy and naïve, but that didn’t take into account his keen understanding of human nature....

Poet Gabriel Syme believes in the beauty of order and, as such, is recruited by Scotland Yard to an anti-anarchist police corp. While undercover, Syme meets fellow poet Lucian Gregory, a verse writer devoted to disorder, who introduces him to London’s anarchist underworld....

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the...

Discover a world of heroes and villains, suspense and intrigue. This riveting and comprehensive collection brings together some of the best crime writing of all time....

Written in his signature style – full of paradox, wit and poetic insight – Chesterton outlines an intellectually rigorous defence of the Christian faith.

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil.

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny...

Every story of Chesterton's unassuming little priest detective, from the first four published collections: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), and The Secret of Father Brown (1927)....

Orthodoxy addresses one main problem: How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? Chesterton has an answer....

In this 1905 collection of essays, G. K. Chesterton contests the growing intolerance for religious thinking and theological debate. He calls out friends and contemporaries - George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, and H. G. Wells, among others....

In this collection of 39 short stories, you will find the full force of his brilliant storytelling abilities encapsulated in an anthology that popped into his curious mind over the years as he reflected on everyday life, and why we do the things we do.

After the success of Heretics, G. K. Chesterton was challenged and compelled to share the story of his pilgrimage to faith. The result is this bracing, watershed religious autobiography....

"And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said Dr. Hood.

In einem kleinen schottischen Dorf verschwindet plötzlich der alteingesessene Lord Glengyle. Inspector Craven aus Edinburgh wird um Hilfe gebeten.

Der berühmte Dichter Leonard Quinton hat sich das Leben genommen. Pater Brown und sein Freund Flambeau gehen der Sache nach, denn merkwürdigerweise ist der gute Mr. Quinton kurz nach einem Gespräch mit ihnen verschieden.

Aus dem ehemaligen Meisterdieb Flambeau ist durch Pater Browns Hilfe ein ehrbarer Privatdetektiv geworden. Als Flambeau dem Pater stolz sein neues Büro in London präsentiert, geschieht ein grausames Unglück, bei dem eine junge Frau ihr Leben verliert.

Während eines geselligen Abends im Haus des Pariser Polizeichefs geschieht im Garten ein Mord. Wer ist der geheimnisvolle Tote und wie sind er und sein Mörder unbemerkt von allen Gästen in den Garten gekommen?