Noun
a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton
Source: WordNetAnd, if viewers need an entertaining escape from all the coronavirus pandemic news, the new seasons of the British mystery-dramas Death In Para-dise and Father Brown are set to premier Monday, April 6 on KCET. Source: Internet
Father Brown is perpetually correcting the incorrect vision of the bewildered folks at the scene of the crime and wandering off at the end with the criminal to exercise his priestly role of recognition and repentance. Source: Internet
He wrote the Father Brown tales to invoke those halcyon days, despite the fact that all the Father Brown stories take place in the age of telephones and automobiles. Source: Internet
At the time he wrote about Father Brown, Chesterton regarded his detective stories as rather less significant than most of his other writing, for example on theology and politics. Source: Internet
Based on G.K. Chesterton's short stories, "Father Brown" follows a kindly cleric as he solves crimes in his community. Source: Internet
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Source: Internet