The Wisdom of Father Brown

1914

The second Father Brown collection, twelve stories from 1914 in which the priest works through disguises, duels and a stolen head of Caesar. Flambeau appears again, now a private detective rather than the thief Father Brown once chased.

The Absence of Mr Glass
The Paradise of Thieves
The Duel of Dr Hirsch
The Man in the Passage
The Mistake of the Machine
The Head of Caesar
The Purple Wig
The Perishing of the Pendragons
The God of the Gongs
The Salad of Colonel Cray
The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
The Fairy Tale of Father Brown