By bringing murder and mayhem into the genteel setting of a village parish, Chesterton pioneered the ‘cozy’ mystery genre which Agatha Christie and others would further develop in subsequent decades. Chesterton, who stars in 52 short stories, later compiled in five books. These mysteries are the original source material for the current hit BBC TV show Father Brown starring Mark Williams.Ĭhesterton’s priest-sleuth was 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 is a fictional character created by English novelist G. Chesterton’s mystery anthologies featuring his eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. First published in 1914, The Wisdom of Father Brown is the second of G.
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