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    The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery
    The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery
    The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery
    Audiobook52 minutes

    The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery

    Written by G. K. Chesterton

    Narrated by Arthur James

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Listeners will delight in these masterful chronicles of the adventures and mishaps of Father Brown. Small, round-faced and engagingly innocent, Brown is a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia. He also happens to be a top-notch detective, possessing that rarest of all gifts - an intuition that never fails.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudio Holdings
    Release dateJan 1, 2009
    ISBN9781601360243
    The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery
    Author

    G. K. Chesterton

    G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Baptized into the Church of England, Chesterton underwent a crisis of faith as a young man and became fascinated with the occult. He eventually converted to Roman Catholicism and published some of Christianity’s most influential apologetics, including Heretics and Orthodoxy. 

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    • 3/5
      Can Father Brown outwit the great criminal Flambeau, and if so, how in my first Father Brown story.
      An amusing short story. On to the next
    • 2/5
      In this first Fr. Brown mystery, Fr. Brown takes a back seat to Detective Valentin of the French police. Valentin is chasing a robber and is one step behind him. He is led on a merry chase from Harwich, through London to Hampstead Heath where Fr. Brown finally appears. Before the arrest is made, there is a discussion about the universality of Christian morality, which a century later this atheist did not find very tolerable. The chase itself is good fun.