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Father Brown Stories

by G.K. Chesterton · 1927

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Features the amateur sleuth Father Brown's whose cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. This edition includes seven tales from a number of 'Father Brown' books.

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British mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of thisdetectivedetectiveMore like thisLess of thisthrillerthrillerMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1920s1920sMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 238 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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