Creator
G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton
Title
The Innocence of Father Brown.
Coverage
London and New York:
Publisher
Cassell and Company, Ltd.
Date
1911
Description
G. K. Chesterton was one of the first men of letters to champion detective fiction, in his 1901 essay, “Defense of the Detective Story.” Father Brown, Chesterton’s protagonist, was “a little Roman Catholic priest, inconspicuous, mild, dull and vacuous,” and was more interested in having the criminal confess than in punishment or even arrest. Queen’s Quorum no. 47 and a Haycraft-Queen selection.
Source
From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson
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