The secret of Father Brown
By G. K. Chesterton
Cover: The Elder Sister (1881), oil on canvas by James Tissot (1836-1902) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1902)
G. K. Chesterton's last Father Brown collection, published in 1927, gathers the priest-detective's later cases. A reader finds him in mellow form, with more of the moral fable than the puzzle. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.