Father Brown is not an ordinary detective. Father Brown is an ordinary parish priest with extraordinary common sense. He never goes looking for mysteries but mysteries always find him. Knowing the very heart of man, with all its weaknesses and wiles, he sees the truth where others are blinded by their own illusions.

In these twelve stories, G.K. Chesterton's second published Father Brown collection, Father Brown finds himself once more seeing answers where others can only see riddles. From misshapen ears to missing condiments, and much more...