O Padre Brown é a personagem criada pelo romancista e ensaísta britânico G. K. Chesterton que protagoniza 52 contos policiais depois compilados em seis volumes. Chesterton baseou a personagem no padre John O’Connor (1870-1952), pároco de Bradford. Outras Histórias do Padre Brown reúne seis aventuras deste personagem, duas delas nunca antes traduzidas em português, O Caso de Donnington e A Máscara de Midas. Brown é um padre católico do Essex mas colocado em Londres, baixo, sempre de batina, com um grande chapéu-de-chuva e uma desconcertante perspicácia sobre a maldade Humana. Ao contrário de Sherlock Holmes, os métodos do padre Brown tendem a ser mais intuitivos que dedutivos, auxiliado pela experiência do amigo Flambeau, um polícia reformado.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. 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. 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 spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. 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. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly. Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.
