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... Father BROWN " In his 1927 short story " The Secret of Father Brown , " Chesterton describes the two basic premises of his detective . First , Father Brown is very suspi- cious of any suspect who utilizes specious reasoning or expresses ...
... Father BROWN " In his 1927 short story " The Secret of Father Brown , " Chesterton describes the two basic premises of his detective . First , Father Brown is very suspi- cious of any suspect who utilizes specious reasoning or expresses ...
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... Father Brown's intuition is perfectly correct . " THE SECRET Garden ” Father Brown has the special ability to recognize the true meaning of seemingly insignificant clues , which other characters see but overlook . In The Inno- cence of ...
... Father Brown's intuition is perfectly correct . " THE SECRET Garden ” Father Brown has the special ability to recognize the true meaning of seemingly insignificant clues , which other characters see but overlook . In The Inno- cence of ...
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... Father Brown begins to examine the case . Father Brown fi- nally comes to the conclusion that Reverend Bohun killed his brother by dropping a hammer on him from the church tower . The murderer tried to frame the vil- lage idiot because ...
... Father Brown begins to examine the case . Father Brown fi- nally comes to the conclusion that Reverend Bohun killed his brother by dropping a hammer on him from the church tower . The murderer tried to frame the vil- lage idiot because ...
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