A review by rileysamsa
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
4.25
A simple yet fun and enjoyable collection of short-stories; more a tale of how Father Brown sees common humanity in everything than how he solves the mysteries at hand. Cleverly, and perhaps sensibly given the inordinate success of Sherlock, Father Brown sets out to present a deeply intelligent, shrewd, yet also deeply moral and sympathetic detective character - whose duty is more to solve the moral problems of the criminals, than to solve the practical problems of the crime itself.
Father Brown is presented with a deep humanity and a genuine desire to save, seeming to take on many of his cases by sheer coincidence of happening to pass by, or by purposeful trawling of the late Victorian's more decadent elements, like a fisherman trawling for fish, Father Brown searches for souls to save and spirits to put at ease.
Father Brown is presented with a deep humanity and a genuine desire to save, seeming to take on many of his cases by sheer coincidence of happening to pass by, or by purposeful trawling of the late Victorian's more decadent elements, like a fisherman trawling for fish, Father Brown searches for souls to save and spirits to put at ease.