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Flying fish, a man with two beards and the Worst Crime in the World...

These are just some of the problems for Father Brown to solve. In his inimitable

way, this gentle, eccentric, extraordinary little cleric-cum-detective sets about unravelling the threads of a colourful skein of mysteries. In the course of his investigations Father Brown travels, in thought if not in deed, all over the world and through all walks of life.

These stories are highly entertainftftj, full of unusual clues, bizarre characters and the kind of wit that only the agile pen of G. K. Chesterton can provide.

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About the Author

J. K. Chesterton was born in 1874, and educated at St Paul's School, where, despite his efforts to achieve honourable oblivion at the bottom of his class, he was singled out as a boy with distinct literary promise. He decided to follow art as a career, and studied at the Slade School, where, while 'attending or not attending to his studies', he met Ernest Hodder-Williams, who formed the fixed notion that Chesterton could write. At his request he reviewed a number of books for the Bookman and found him­self launched on a profession he was to follow all his life. Probably his most famous stories are those of 'Father Brown', but he wrote much about every conceivable subject under or beyond the sun. The best accounts of his life are to be found in his own Autobiography, published soon after his death in 1936, and in Miss Maisie Ward's Life of him.