g.k. chesterton wrote the 'father brown' crime stories.
g.k. chesterton wrote the 'father brown' crime stories.
who wrote the 'father brown' crime stories?
g.k. chesterton
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father brown, detective is a 1934 american mystery film directed by edward sedgwick and starring walter connolly, paul lukas and gertrude michael. it is based on the father brown story "the blue cross" by g.k. chesterton, a story which also informed the 1954 film "father brown" with alec guinness and peter finch.









































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when infamous jewel thief flambeau (paul lukas) announces his intention to steal stones from a diamond cross in father brown (walter connolly)'s church, the crime-solving cleric fights to retain the cross, and also to save the soul of the elusive flambeau.









































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bullet::::- gardner, martin, "the annotated innocence of father brown", oxford university press, 1987, (notes by gardner, on chesterton's stories).









































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bullet::::- "the complete father brown" at ebooks@adelaide









































bullet::::- "g. k. chesterton's works on the web"









































bullet::::- "father brown stories" at faded page (canada)









































bullet::::- "the innocence of father brown" at project gutenberg









































bullet::::- "the innocence of father brown" 1911 first edition at open library









































bullet::::- "the wisdom of father brown" at project gutenberg









































bullet::::- "the wisdom of father brown" 1914 first edition at open library









































bullet::::- review of uk dvd of the 1974 tv series
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