The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton Fiction Mystery & Detective

<p><strong>Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short stumpy Roman Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella and an uncanny insight into human evil.</strong> How in Tartarus cried Flambeau did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet? -- Oh one's little flock you know! said Father Brown arching his eyebrows rather blankly. When I was a curate in Hartlepool there were three of them with spiked bracelets. * Not long after he published _Orthodoxy_ G. K. Chesterton moved from London to Beaconsfield and met Father O'Connor. O'Connor had a shrewd insight to the darker side of man's nature and a mild appearance to go with it -- and together those came together to become Chesterton's unassuming Father Brown. Chesterton loved the character and the magazines he wrote for loved the stories. _The Innocence of Father Brown_ was the first collection of them and it's a great lot of fun.</p>