Father Brown

Father Brown1954

What Agatha Christie did for genteel spinsters with her intrepid crime-solver Miss Marple, G.K. Chesterton did with the splendid Father Brown, a bumbling yet wily cleric in 1920s England, bumping into and then solving the most outlandish crimes. Thi… more »



Father Brown:
Appalling.

Flambeau:
An odd word to apply to the finest private collection in the world.

Father Brown:
What is appalling is that it is private.

Flambeau:
You are the first person to have the privilege of seeing it. Look at my El Greco.

Father Brown:
Yours?

Flambeau:
Mine.

Father Brown:
This, I believe, is yours.

Flambeau:
Oh. So that's how you traced me. Thank you. I wondered where I'd lost it.

Father Brown:
You didn't lose it. I stole it.

Flambeau:
We have something in common then.

Father Brown:
All men do.

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