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The Innocence of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton

Form
Form Short Story Collection
Year
Year 1911
Pages
Pages 280

He looks like a Norfolk dumpling with eyes as empty as the North Sea, forever losing his umbrella and dropping his parcels, and Europe's most notorious thief takes one glance at him and decides he has finally found an easy mark. He is wrong, catastrophically wrong, and watching him find that out is most of the pleasure on offer here.

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