About the book: year / The stories about Father Brown are small masterpieces of the British classic detective story that have become a real literary phenomenon. Plays were written about this hero, musicals were composed and even comics were drawn. Chesterton's stories were filmed more than once in England and the USA, Germany and Italy, and the film adaptations were invariably successful. And to this day, readers all over the world again and again admire the insight of the famous priest.