The Wisdom of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"...... This is the second volume of Father Brown stories that was published and contains the stories 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 and, The Fairy Tale of Father Brown. All the Father Brown tales are short stories and all are ultimately puzzles. If you have never read any of the stories before then you should find yourself enjoying them. There is humour amongst the stories and Father Brown, a little dumpy man, is not quite the character you expect to see as an amateur detective. In many ways he is akin to Miss Marple using intuition and clearness of vision, from in the case of Father Brown, years of hearing tales in the Confessional. One reviewer has written that these are Catholic propaganda ......"