![]() I enjoyed some stories, but found many to be disappointing in that they were short of being actual mysteries in the sense that I had expected them to be. Brown lacks the appeal of the first collection. His character was thought to be based on Father John O’Connor, a parish priest in Bradford, Yorkshire."Īcquired: Purchased the free kindle edition. He is a devout, educated and "civilized" clergyman, who is totally familiar with contemporary and secular thought and behaviour. Although clearly devout, he always emphasizes rationality: despite his religiousness and his belief in God and miracles, he manages to see the perfectly ordinary, natural explanation of the problem. His methods, unlike those of his near contemporary Sherlock Holmes, although based on observation of details often unnoticed by others, tended to be intuitive rather than deductive. Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella who has an uncanny insight into human evil. Publisher's Summary: "This is the second book of short stories about G. ![]() Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of Blue-green marble." Chesterton ( US) - ( Canada) - ( Kindle) = FREEįirst sentence: "The consulting-rooms of Dr. ![]()
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