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In this enthralling crime novel, a baffling murder shocks London: a man has been murdered in a locked room after receiving anonymous threats, his body resurfacing in a nearby canal. Witnesses swear no one went in – or out. The suspect? A supposedly invisible man. But as panic spreads across the local area, Father Brown, the quiet priest with a razor-sharp mind, believes all is not what it seems. As he begins to unravel the fatal mystery, Brown cleverly illustrates how anyone can become invisible – not by magic, but by expectation.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Manalive (1912) is G.K. Chesterton's exuberant philosophical mystery-novel, built as a two-part courtroom drama around the irrepressible Innocent Smith. When a great wind blows Smith into the shabby boarding-house of Beacon House — tumbling over the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Club of Queer Trades (1905) is G.K. Chesterton's sparkling collection of six linked mysteries built around the narrator's discovery of a most unusual London society — the Club of Queer Trades, whose members must each practise a profession so...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) is G.K. Chesterton's masterful collection of eight connected mystery stories featuring Horne Fisher, an aristocratic investigator who knows far too much about the great men and secret machinery of Edwardian England. In...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Secret of Father Brown (1927) is G.K. Chesterton's third and final collection of stories featuring his beloved detective-priest, Father Brown. Ten mysteries carry the little round-faced clergyman from a mirrored murder in the public baths to a crime...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908) is G.K. Chesterton's celebrated philosophical thriller-novel. Gabriel Syme, a young poet recruited as a police detective, infiltrates the Central Anarchist Council — a secret society of seven members named...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) is G.K. Chesterton's second collection of short stories featuring his beloved detective-priest, Father Brown. Twelve self-contained mysteries take the little round-faced clergyman from the consulting-rooms of a...

One of the most beloved and quick-witted characters in all of British crime fiction, Father Brown is a Catholic priest who mines his extensive knowledge of human nature to crack mysteries wide open. Through his empathy, Father Brown is able to solve even the most puzzling crimes. Father Brown stories have been turned into TV, film, and radio experiences over decades. Here is a classic collection of some of his most famous cases, filled with his signature wit and compassion.

Addentratevi nel capolavoro profetico di G.K. Chesterton dove fantasia e rivoluzione si scontrano nella Londra del futuro. Ambientato ottant'anni più avanti rispetto alla sua epoca, questo racconto satirico segue la trasformazione di uno scherzo reale in una lotta epica che porta il fasto medievale nelle strade moderne.

This is a story from the The Innocence of Father Brown collection. Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, a remarkable achievement, turns his hand to the genial but certainly not innocent priest!

The greatest ever selection of fictional detectives, all together in one superb CD collection. Find Sherlock Holmes with his long suffering colleague, Dr. Watson in The Dying Detective, Father Brown as a witness in court in The Man in the Passage, and J.G. Reeder in The Poetical Policeman and...

A dazzling and uplifting biography of the great Saint Francis of Assisi who gained the world by giving up worldly goods to be be independent of all. Less is more at the highest level. Told in a remarkably astute, nuanced, optimistic, uplifting biography by G. K. Chesterton, known as the Prince of Paradox.

The Definitive Detective Collection brings together the finest deductive minds in fiction. Join Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin as he invents the detective genre in the mid-1800s, and follow the logical clues to the most famous detectives ever committed to paper, Sherlock Holmes and Hercule...

This is an essay from the Favorite Essays collection.

This is a story from the The Innocence of Father Brown - Volume 2 collection.

This is a story from the The Innocence of Father Brown collection. Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, a remarkable achievement, turns his hand to the genial but certainly not innocent priest!

Written by G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy addresses foremost one main problem: How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? Chesterton writes, "I wish to set forth my faith as particularly answering this double spiritual need, the need for that mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar which Christendom has rightly named romance."

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Step into the fog-shrouded streets of Edwardian London, where unassuming detectives solve the world's most baffling crimes. G.K. Chesterton's beloved Father Brown stories follow a quiet, stumpy little Catholic priest, whose unassuming appearance hides...

The Complete G.K. Chesterton Collection brings together all of Chesterton's major works, including all five volumes of the beloved Father Brown stories, ten other novels or short story collections, 7 works of non-fiction, including his famous writings on politics, religion, and philosophy, and a...

Chestertons herlige Fader Brown-historier er blevet nogle af kriminallitteraturens store klassikere. Fader Brown, som aldrig har fået noget fornavn, er en lille tyk, katolsk præst fra Cobhole i Essex, nu bosiddende i London. Han går uformeligt klædt og har altid en sort paraply med sig, som...