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The Wisdom of Father Brown

by G. K. Chesterton

More cases for the small, unassuming priest whose method remains disarmingly simple: understand the sinner well enough, and the crime explains itself. Chesterton keeps proving that humility is a sharper investigative tool than arrogance. I find him easier to trust than most fictional detectives, and I have met a great many.

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Reading time
About 4 hr 50 min
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Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #223. In the public domain in the United States.

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