The Scandal of Father Brown was G.K. Chesterton's final set of Father Brown short stories. Also included in this collection is the short story The Mask of Midas. The enigmatic and diminutive priest continues to fathom the deepest of mysteries in a set of 11 fascinating stories which are set in such diverse locations as a Mexican Hotel, an English Seaside Pier, and an Oxford University Garden. Chesterton presents his...
humble and blinking detective as an almost childlike contrast to the bizarre and dark machinations of the fallen world. And yet, Father Brown is far from a saintly figure. With his enjoyment of good wine and cigars, he is fully in the world, but not of the world.
Indeed, it is his accurate and insightful reading of men and women's souls that often lead him to understand their actions and motives. If any has taken to heart Christ's admonition to be as “wise as serpents and harmless as doves", it is Father Brown!
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