Track	Title	Length
01	"The Absence of Mr Glass"	33:51
02	"The Paradise of Thieves"	41:11
03	"The Duel of Dr Hirsch"	35:35
04	"The Man in the Passage"	39:57
05	"The Mistake of the Machine"	36:14
06	"The Head of Caesar"	37:38
07	"The Purple Wig"	32:38
08	"The Perishing of the Pendragons"	45:04
09	"The God of the Gongs"	34:48
10	"The Salad of Colonel Cray"	31:43
11	"The Strange Crime of John Boulnois"	36:42
12	"The Fairy Tale of Father Brown"	31:48

Notes
Running Time: 7 hours 17 minutes
Read by: Martin Clifton
Book Coordinator: Martin Clifton
Meta Coordinator: Kristin LeMoine

Artwork
Cover: Frontispiece to Chesterton's The Wisdom of Father Brown, 1911, by Sydney Seymour Lucas (1878-1954)
Inset: First edition cover of The Wisdom of Father Brown
Inset: Photo of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, author unknown
Insert background: Sketch of G. K. Chesterton 1920 or earlier. Author unknown.

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The Wisdom of Father Brown is the second collection of short stories by G. K. Chesterton featuring the character of Father Brown, a short, stocky Roman Catholic priest who spends much of his time sleuthing about and solving crimes and mysteries using his intuition and understanding of human nature, especially evil. The character of Father Brown was loosely based on a parish priest in Bradford, Father John O’Connor, and is portrayed in shapeless clothes with a large umbrella and a bicycle. In a way, he is a counterpoint to the eccentric and super rational Sherlock Holmes character of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Chesterton produced four additional Father Brown collections: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), The Secret of Father Brown (1927) and The Scandal of Father Brown (1935). The stories have often been adapted for film, radio and television, most notably in Father Brown, Detective (1934) starring Walter Connolly, Father Brown (1954) starring Alec Guinness, and most recently the popular Father Brown series of ten episodes on BBC starring Mark Williams.

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Item Info
EAN - DVD case	0683422134951
EAN - CD jacket	0682550992501
Media	MP3 CD
Package	DVD Case
Author	G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Year	1914
Recording
Read by	Martin Clifton
Length	7 hours and 17 minutes
Type of Reading	Solo