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Father Brown, a modest, mild-mannered priest with a sharp intellect and even sharper sense of the human condition, is thrown into a series of mysteries which often baffle both his peers and the authorities. Despite his humble appearance, Father Brown can easily detect falsehoods, see through disguises and defy tampered logic to get to the truth. From cases of theft, fraud and murders with no apparent weapon, Brown remains calm in the face of evil time and time again, utilising compassion, empathy and keen intuition.

It’s 1958, and Evelyn Elizabeth Grace Murphy has not left the Pinnacle Hotel in fourteen months. She suffers from agoraphobia, and what’s more, it’s her father’s hotel, and everything she needs is there. She’s always been good at finding things. Fifteen years earlier, she discovered her mother dead. Now, she’s finding trouble inside her sanctuary. At a party for artist Billie Bell, his newest work is stolen, and Evelyn’s fake boyfriend, movie star Henry Fox, is accused of the theft. But just as Evelyn sets out to prove Henry’s innocence, she finds Billie Bell dead.

With his black hat, huge umbrella, unworldly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations. In this collection of 13 full-cast dramatisations, the high priest of detection becomes involved in seven intriguing cases that will tax even his mental powers to the limit.

Frühling in Potsdam. Zwischen blühenden Uferwiesen und den ersten wärmenden Sonnenstrahlen hängt plötzlich eine Leiche im Anker von Chefredakteur Galligs Motorjacht: Der Tote ist ausgerechnet Sacrows neuer Pfarrer. Für die einen war er ein Heiland, für die anderen ein Störenfried. Für Lokalreporter Frederik Loebell und Zwergdackel Wilhelm beginnt eine Spurensuche zwischen scheinheiligen Fassaden, Elchen und einer Kirchengemeinde in mörderischer Eintracht.

M. K. Jones presents Book 4 in the Curiosity Club of St Foy series...

Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award winner Jennifer K. Breedlove brings coastal Maine to life in Murder Will Out, a lighter, modern gothic mystery that's as atmospheric as it is heart-warming. "[Narrator Gail] Shalan vividly portrays the island’s many characters...

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. "How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?" - "Oh, one's little flock, you know!" said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. "When I was a curate in Hartlepool, there were three of them with spiked bracelets." Not long after he published Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton moved from London to Beaconsfield, and met Father O'Connor.

Was als entspannter Sonntagsspaziergang begann, endet für Lokalreporter Frederik Loebell und seinen treuen Zwergdackel Wilhelm mit einem mysteriösen Fund: In der Familiengruft der Kallbachs liegt eine ermordete junge Frau in schwarzer Ritualkleidung. Und damit nicht genug: Der Sarg, der dort eigentlich ruhen sollte, taucht zeitgleich in einem anderen Mausoleum auf. Was verbindet die beiden Toten miteinander?

When twenty-year-old Cass Ryan is pulled out of the Hudson River, she's officially dead for four minutes. She doesn't know anything about the boy who pushed her in. She doesn't know why she's been hallucinating since coming back. What she does know is that the violent visions feel terrifyingly real and that her life will never be the same. Enter The Else & Bellows Institute.

El conjunto de los relatos del padre Brown, escrito a lo largo de más de veinte años, constituye quizá la obra más popular de Chesterton. El simpático cura-detective que los protagoniza resuelve en ellos, armado únicamente con su paraguas, su inocencia y su sabiduría, intrincados casos gracias a un conocimiento sencillo a la par que profundo de la naturaleza humana.

Billionaire Elliott Kantor, who ruled over a mammoth real estate portfolio in Chicago, was a creature of habit. His trainer came to his house three mornings every week for a five-thirty workout. By six-thirty he was in the car and his driver drove him down into the city where he’d get a shave...

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. "How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?" -- "Oh, one's little flock, you know!" said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. "When I was a curate in Hartlepool, there were three of them with spiked bracelets." Not long after he published Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton moved from London to Beaconsfield, and met Father O'Connor.

When Abbie Adams, a historian-turned-journalist, is hired to investigate a cold-case murder from 1969, she jumps at the chance. But soon after she begins researching the case, she realizes that Frank Wexler, the faculty advisor who tanked her thesis and a member of a powerful family in town, is connected to the crime and is definitely not talking.

England, Anfang der 1930er Jahre: Im ersten Band von "SCHWARZTEE, SCONES & EINE LEICHE" ermittelt Myrna nicht nur am Theater in York und versucht das Geheimnis um eine verschwundene Näherin und einen toten Schauspieler aufzudecken, nein, auch ihre Jugendliebe Horatio, mittlerweile ein durchaus bekannter Schauspieler, darf sich nützlich machen. Und dummerweise kann Myrna ihm einfach nicht entkommen.

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! This collection contains a group of stories from the Innocence of Father Brown, told unabridged.

A gifted but idiosyncratic teenager must unlock fiendish puzzles, pore through occult texts, and unearth buried clues—all while reckoning with the outside world in ways she never has before—as she pursues an ancient secret in this brainteasing, YA/adult conspiracy thriller. When Arizona...

Mystery, murder, deception, obsession, and vendetta abound in Chesterton's third collection of eight adventures for the unassuming but insightful Father Brown; including a happily temporary demise for the little priest himself; a millionaire killed with an arrow from heaven; another disappeared from a sealed room; a maniac determined to possess a precious relic; and a decaying family and a mysterious portrait.

In Sophies Bistroküche im bretonischen Erquy tut sich was: Sie entdeckt die Liebe zu essbaren Algen und zu einem Meeresbiologen, der zu dem Thema forscht. Doch die Idylle währt nicht lange, denn Sophie findet eine junge Fischerin tot auf deren Boot. Musste sie sterben, weil sie sich für Umweltbelange einsetzte? Oder war es eine Beziehungstat? Als ein gewaltiger Herbststurm auf die Côtes-d'Armor trifft, erkennt Sophie, dass Leidenschaft auch eine dunkle Seite haben kann.

Mann weg, Haus weg, Geld weg - Sophie Vidals Leben ist gehörig in Schieflage geraten. Und dann stirbt auch noch ihre beste Freundin in der Nordbretagne. Kurzentschlossen reist Sophie nach Frankreich. Beim Trauermahl im Bistro bricht ein Gast nach dem Genuss einer Jakobsmuschel tot zusammen. Muschelvergiftung oder Mord? Genau das will Sophie herausbekommen. Sie nimmt einen Job als Köchin an und steckt ihre neugierige Nase nicht nur in Rezeptbücher. Daran finden einige Leute überhaupt keinen Gefallen.

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. Not long after he published Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton moved from London to Beaconsfield, and met Father O'Connor. O'Connor had a shrewd insight to the darker side of man's nature and a mild appearance to go with it--and together those came together to become Chesterton's unassuming Father Brown. Chesterton loved the character, and the magazines he wrote for loved the stories.