The Complete Father Brown Mysteries, Vol. 1 (Illustrated‪)‬

"The Complete Father Brown Mysteries, Vol 1" contains 24 stories featuring G. K. Chesterton's eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. These mysteries are the original source material for the current hit BBC TV show Father Brown starring Mark Williams. 


Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, loosely based on Father John O'Connor, a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.  


Father Brown’s powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Sherlock Holmes but he is also, to quote Rufus King, ‘in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being’. 


He appears in 53 short stories in all.  This volume contains the first 24 stories in the series.