| Edition |
[More complete edition] |
| Description |
796 pages ; 20 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Wordsworth classics |
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Wordsworth classics.
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| Note |
"First published in 1992 by Wordsworth Editions ... This more complete edition published 2006 "--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
"Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories. They reporesent the quiet wit and compassion which is so different from his moody and caustic predecessor, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Father Brown solves his mysteries by a mixture of intuition and sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner." -- Page 4 of cover. |
| Contents |
The innocence of Father Brown: The blue cross ; The secret garden ; The queer feet ; The flying stars ; The invisible man ; The honour of Israel Gow ; The wrong shape ; The sins of Prince Saradine ; The hammer of God ; The eye of Apollo ; The sign of the broken sword ; The three tools of death -- The wisdom of Father Brown: The absence of Mr Glass ; The paradise of thieves ; The duel of Dr Hirsch ; The man in the passage ; The mistake of the machine ; The head of the Caesar ; The purple wig ; The perishing of the Pendragons ; The God of the Gongs ; The salad of Colonel Cray ; The strange crime of John Boulnois ; The fairy tale of Father Brown -- The incredulity of Father Brown: The resurrection of Father Brown ; The arrow of heaven ; The oracle of the dog ; The miracle of Moon Crescent -- The curse of the golden cross ; The dagger with wings ; The doom of the Darnaways ; The ghost of Gideon Wise -- The secret of Father Brown: The secret of Father Brown The mirror of the Magistrate ; The man with two beards ; The song of the flying fish ; The actor and the alibi ; The vanishing of Vaudrey ; The worst crime in the world ; The red moon of Meru ; The chief mourner of Marne ; The secret of Flambeau -- The scandal of Father Brown: The scandal of Father Brown ; The quick one ; The blast of the book ; The green man ; The pursuit of Mr Blue ; The crime of the communist ; The point of a pin ; The insoluble problem -- The vampire of the village -- The Donnington affair -- Father Brown solves the Donnington affair. |
| Subject |
Brown, Father (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories, English.
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Brown, Father (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00839754
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Detective and mystery stories, English. (OCoLC)fst00891515
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| Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Davies, David Stuart, 1946-
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| Added Title |
Father Brown |
| ISBN |
9781853260032 (pbk.) |
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1853260037 (pbk.) |
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