The Wisdom of Father Brown E-Book

G.K. Chesterton

• Herausgeber: Ktoczyta.pl
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

In Chesterton’s second Father Brown book, „The Wisdom of Father Brown,” we get a series of bizarre, sometimes dangerous mysteries that Father Brown must puzzle out. Some of the crimes are simple once Brown explains them, but others are devious, chilling things that are wrapped in Chesterton’s poetic prose. In the stories that follow, the priest investigates many other mysteries: a sinister voodoo cult, a nobleman with a deformed ear, a gang of Italian thieves, a lie-detector with one major problem (the operator), a girl who is blackmailed for a crime nobody knows she committed, a burning tower, a murder that may be suicide, and a man who is under a horrible death curse. Father Brown solves things by observation and thought, in some ways like Poirot, but in an unassuming and modest manner. The stories are each very different, but are very good reading.

Leseprobe

Contents

I. The Absence Of Mr Glass

II. The Paradise Of Thieves

III. The Duel Of Dr Hirsch

IV. The Man In The Passage

V. The Mistake Of The Machine

VI. The Head Of Caesar

VII. The Purple Wig

VIII. The Perishing Of The Pendragons

IX. The God Of The Gongs

X. The Salad Of Colonel Cray

XI. The Strange Crime Of John Boulnois

XII. The Fairy Tale Of Father Brown