The fourth collection of Father Brown stories featuring the ingenious amateur detective. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton's original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers. 'You see, I had murdered them all myself ... I had thought out exactly how a thing like that could be done, and in what style or state of mind a man could really do it. And when I was quite sure that I felt exactly like the murderer myself, of course I knew who he was.' Unassuming super-sleuth Father Brown has such brilliant powers of deduction that he knows more about crime than the criminals themselves. In this fourth volume of stories, the shabby priest unravels the most baffling conundrums involving, among others, a flying fish, a man with two beards and the Worst Crime in the World. G. K. Chesterton was born in 1874. He attended the Slade School of Art, where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown, before turning his hand to journalism. A prolific writer throughout his life, his best- known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill 1904 , The Man Who Knew Too Much 1922 , The Man Who Was Thursday 1908 and the Father Brown stories. Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in 1938. 'Chesterton knew how to make the most of a detective story' Jorge Luis Borges.
CHESTERTON GILBERT KEITH
Nació en Londres, en 1874 y murió en 1936. Es considerado uno de los más importantes escritores británicos del siglo XX. Su vasta obra comprende escritos de géneros tan diversos como la novela, el ensayo, el periodismo, la poesía, la biografía y el teatro. Entre sus principales obras se cuentan El hombre que fue jueves, El Napoleón de Notting Hill y su Autobiografía. El padre Brown, un sacerdote detective, fue el personaje que le dio mayor popularidad.
