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The Innocence of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton. The first collection of Father Brown detective stories, beginning with The Blue Cross. This volume does not contain the complete Father Brown series.

By G. K. Chesterton. 1 edition, with a text you can read on this site.

Reading editions & sources

Stories

  1. The Blue Cross
  2. The Secret Garden
  3. The Queer Feet
  4. The Flying Stars
  5. The Invisible Man
  6. The Honour of Israel Gow
  7. The Wrong Shape
  8. The Sins of Prince Saradine
  9. The Hammer of God
  10. The Eye of Apollo
  11. The Sign of the Broken Sword
  12. The Three Tools of Death

The Father Brown collections

  1. The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), this book: read here, 12 stories on their own pages
  2. The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914): read here, 12 stories on their own pages
  3. The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926). Public domain in the US. Read the 1926 scan at the Internet Archive; full text here is coming. Stories: 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, and The Ghost of Gideon Wise.
  4. The Secret of Father Brown (1927): read here, 10 stories on their own pages
  5. The Scandal of Father Brown (1935). Published 1935, after this library’s 1931 cutoff, so it is not hosted or linked as a full text here. Find a library copy. WorldCat · Open Library

Where to buy print editions

Reading here is free. If you would like a printed copy, these editions come from our edition guide for The Father Brown Stories. Check the translator and ISBN before you buy.

  • Best overall: The Complete Father Brown Stories (Penguin Classics). ISBN 9780141193854. Bookshop.org ↗

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