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Father Brown accompanies his friend Granby to Sir John Musgrave's castle - but when they arrive, they discover something is very wrong . . .

Aristide Valentin, Paris chief of police, has decided to stage a grand dinner party at his estate. The estate has only one entrance, with a garden protected by a high wall; there is no entering or leaving except by the main entrance, which is guarded by Valentin's steadfast servant, Ivan. However, a murder most foul occurs, a decapitation, and it will be up to Father Brown to use all his wits to solve this heinous murder.

If you were to meet a mild, hardworking little priest named Father Brown and were to ask him what he thought was the most singular luck of his life, he would probably reply that upon the whole his best stroke was at the Vernon Hotel, where he had averted a crime and, perhaps, saved a soul merely by listening to a few footsteps in a passage.

“My last crime was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cozy, English middle-class crime; a crime of Charles Dickens. I did it in a good old middle-class house, a house with a crescent of carriage drive, a house with a stable by the side of it, a house with the name on the two outer gates, a house with a monkey tree. Enough, you know the species.” How does Father Brown solve the theft of three gorgeous, large diamonds by a boastful thief?

Listeners will delight in these masterful chronicles of the adventures and mishaps of Father Brown. Small, round-faced, and engagingly innocent, Brown is a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia. He also happens to be a top-notch detective, possessing that rarest of all gifts - an intuition that never fails.

Father Brown and Flambeau, now a private detective, arrive at Glengyle Castle in Scotland to help Inspector Craven of Scotland Yard solve the strange death and secretive burial of the late earl, a secluded man who lived as a hermit with his servant, the silent Israel Gow. The Earl died and was buried in secrecy by Gow. The clues to the crime, if there has been a crime, are large in number and baffling. What is behind these odd and mysterious events?

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. One of the most beloved characters in 20th-century detective fiction, the kindly cleric leverages his unrivaled insights into human nature to decipher 12 ingenious mysteries from the witty and clever mind of G. K. Chesterton.

London. A candidate for global capital. Centre of an empire. The swift-beating heart of culture. A sprawling metropolis of life’s rich tapestry. And a bewildering Escher cityscape of overlapping and colliding forces. People, streets, buildings interweaving and interchanging. And our eminent writers have the talent and focus to reveal the story that lies beneath the words.

Wenn Flambeau seinen Monatsurlaub nimmt, dann unternimmt er eine Bootsfahrt. Und die unternimmt er mit seinem Freund, dem schlauen Pater aus Essex. So auch dieses Mal. Allerdings dieses Mal mit einem bestimmten Ziel. So hat ihn vor langer Zeit der Brief eines seltsamen Mannes erreicht. Eine Einladung. Von einem waschechten Prinzen. Und den wollen die beiden nun also besuchen. Kaum dort angekommen, werden sie unfreiwillig Zeugen geradezu schrecklicher Ereignisse. Ein Duell. Ein Mord. Der Täter geständig. Selten gab es einen einfacheren Fall - glaubt die Polizei. Doch Pater Brown sieht das etwas anders.

L’irresistibile Padre Brown torna a stupirci con le sue incredibili doti intuitive, sempre accompagnate da un’incrollabile fede nella forza del Bene sul Male! In una serie di indagini appassionanti e cariche di humour, il brillante prete dell’Essex deve affrontare il mistero di strani specchi e di enigmatiche armature, smascherando ciarlatani che simulano doti soprannaturali e riconducendo assassini spietati sulla retta via... Il londinese Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) è stato fra i più importanti intellettuali cattolici della sua generazione.

Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Crooked Man, and G.K. Chesterton's The Man in the Passage, comprise this anthology featuring famous sleuths.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton has become synonymous with modern Christian apologetics. But his impact goes beyond just those interested in a defense of Christian thought. His writings have influenced such diverse authors as C.S. Lewis, Marshall McLuhan, and Jorge Luis Borges, and remains a subtle and unseen presence in contemporary Catholic thought.

Der Pater weilt auf Urlaub in den USA. Und schliddert selbstredend sofort in einen Kriminalfall. Ein bekannter Milliardär wurde ermordet. Mit einem Pfeil erschossen - vom Garten seines Anwesens, das einer uneinnehmbaren Festung gleicht. Vom Täter fehlt jede Spur. Wie ist das möglich? Ist hier etwas Übernatürliches am Werk? Fiel dieser Pfeil buchstäblich vom Himmel?

Set in London in the early 1900s, this metaphysical thriller follows undercover policeman Gabriel Syme, who, in partnership with a Scotland Yard task force, attempts to take down underground anarchists. Syme encounters Lucian Gregory, a passionate anarchist, who eventually takes him to a secret meeting place. Once there, Syme begins to influence the anarchists and is eventually elected to the central council. In his attempts to destroy the council of anarchists from the inside, he starts to uncover more secrets, each more mysterious than the last.

In The Secret of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton bookends eight classic Father Brown mysteries with a fascinating encounter between the detective-priest and an admiring yet inquisitive American.

G.K. Chesterton is most notable for his creation of Father Brown. This unlooked for, and often unwelcome, detective is actually not a detective. But rather, an individual self-trained to think as criminals think, for he has heard so many of their confessions. He knows how their minds work, and can piece together many things that others cannot.

This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it. The book is therefore arranged upon the positive principle of a riddle and its answer.

Short story The Blue Cross is Chesterton's first Father Brown mystery. It introduces the characters Flambeau and Valentin. It is unique among the Father Brown mysteries in that it does not follow the actions of the Father himself, but rather those of Valentin. Brown has been committing acts to draw the attention of the police (throwing soup, knocking over apples, smashing a window) and leaving an obvious trail for them to follow. Valentin takes this opportunity to emerge from hiding with the policemen and arrest Flambeau. Both Flambeau and Valentin bow to Father Brown's superior detective skills.

En el Londres surrealista de cambio de siglo, el poeta Gabriel Syme es reclutado por un destacamento antianarquista en Scotland Yard. A partir de este momento empezará su bizarra y trepidante misión en la que tendrá un objetivo como detective encubierto. Según Chesterton, se trataba de un nuevo tipo de novela, una historia en la que se tipifican pensamientos modernos, pero no con argumentos, sino con incidentes simbólicos: una comedia alegórica.

Get ready for an adventure of epic proportions with The Sign of the Broken Sword by G.K. Chesterton! In this thrilling tale, a young man is drawn into a world of espionage and danger as he tries to solve a mystery and clear his father's name. With its fast-paced plot, memorable characters, and themes of loyalty and honor, The Sign of the Broken Sword is a must-listen for anyone who loves a good mystery or adventure. So why wait? Start listening to The Sign of the Broken Sword today and let Chesterton's storytelling skills keep you on the edge of your seat.https://www.solgood.org - Check out ...