Richland Library Main
Keep Me in Suspense Book Group
Saturday, June 8, 2024 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Join us at 2:30 on Saturday, June 8, for a lively discussion of The Innocence by Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton.
Please contact Chantal Wilson or Janet Hatch at 803.929.3400 to get a book group set copy of the title.
"Quirky, affable, Father Brown made his first appearance in the short story “The Blue Cross” in 1910. The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) collects this story and eleven others in what is the first of five Father Brown volumes. Chesterton describes his unlikely crack detective as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes, a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into the criminal mind. Characteristically humble and usually rather quiet, except to say something profound, Father Brown relies more on intuition than deduction to solve mysteries, often assisted by the reformed criminal M. Hercule Flambeau. Chesterton’s wildly popular Father Brown stories—which he continued to write until his death in 1936—are among the most beloved of the detective fiction genre.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was a prolific English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He is best known in mystery circles as the creator of the fictional priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Often referred to as “the prince of paradox,” Chesterton frequently made his points by turning familiar sayings and proverbs inside out.
In addition to writing fifty-three Father Brown stories, Chesterton authored articles and books of social criticism, philosophy, theology, economics, literary criticism, biography, and poetry.
“The Father Brown stories penned in the early 1900s by British critic-novelist-philosopher G. K. Chesterton still rank among the best examples of the detective fiction genre.”
—The Los Angeles Times" ~ Provided by publisher.
Keep Me in Suspense Book Group meets the second Saturday of every month from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
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