
Solo con la observación de la escena de los hechos y con el conocimiento de los participantes resuelve con ingenio los casos que se le presentan.Įn esta novela, Flambeau (ex-ladrón y detective de oficio) es el hilo conductor de los casos ya que siempre se encuentran juntos, aunque siempre es el Padre Brown quién resuelve los entuertos. Combina estos dones para ir resolviendo misterios, asesinatos, dudas históricas y otro tipo de situaciones.Įs una inteligencia al nivel de Sherlock Holmes, pero sin usar tantos datos científicos. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.Ĭhesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.Įl Padre Brown es un cura católico con grandes dotes de observación y con mucho conocimiento de la conducta humana. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown.

In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time.

Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
