Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-"The innocence of Father Brown" is the first book of the short witty, thoughtful and lyrically written mystery stories of GK Chesterton that present the modest unresolved priest who solves crimes by imagining within the mind and soul of the criminal and understanding his motives . The stories are full of paradoxes, spiritual insight and "Chestertonian fantasy," or of seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. "The innocence of Father Brown" is the first collection of mystery stories that involve the fictional character Father Brown. Inspired by Father John O'Connor, friend of GK Chesterton and Catholic priest, Father Brown became one of the best fictional characters in the stories of mystery detectives. Father Brown was a short and unsuspecting priest with glasses who would solve crimes by understanding the human mind and the soul of the criminals involved.This was a radically different approach to Sherlock Holmes impersonators, trying to exaggerate each other with strange crimes focused on physical clues. Many stories in Father Brown's innocence are full of paradoxes, an understanding of human nature and a spiritual vision of the priest with Chesterton's unique style of considering the ordinary as extraordinary.Father Brown's series has led to the inspiration of Agatha Christie and many other writers. Alfred Hitchcock also admired Father Brown's series.
