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	Amazon.com: The Complete Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery): Books: Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Father Brown's simple manner makes you quick to underestimate him, but the startling flashes of brilliance that spill from beneath his humble exterior soon make you realize that he has a firm grasp on the truth of a situation when you are as yet frustratingly distant from it.
		Father Brown is not so much concerned with preserving life or bringing a criminal to justice as he is with unravelling the strands of an impossible paradox.
		In fact, Chesterton's conception of Father Brown is itself a paradox - both a cleric and a crime-fighter, a priest and a policeman, a representative of God's mercy and an instrument of God's justice, a proclaimer of forgiveness and a seeker of guilt, a listener in the confessional and a questioner in the interrogation.
	www.amazon.com /Complete-Father-Brown-Mystery/dp/014009766X (2266 words)

	Father Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Father Brown is a short, stumpy Catholic priest, "formerly of Cobhole in Essex, and now working in London," with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, but an uncanny insight into human evil.
		Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for conveying Chesterton's view of the world, and of all of his characters, is perhaps closest to Chesterton's own point of view, or at least the effect of his point of view.
		Father Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths rather than scientific details, making him an almost equal counterbalance with Sherlock Holmes, which Chesterton read and admired, the stories of which had been discontinued just a couple years before.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Father_Brown (813 words)

	Generally Speaking-V1N7: Father Brown's Hidden Methods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brown gives a masterful demonstration of this talent in every story, but with special virtuosity in "The Honour of Israel Gow," in which Scotland Yard is utterly baffled by a collection of minute pieces of metal, heaps of loose diamonds, piles of snuff, and stacks of wax candles.
		Father Brown quickly and quietly concludes that the hammer was thrown from the rooftop of the church, and he begins to observe the words and behavior of the curate with special attention.
		Father Brown reaches out and grabs the criminal, a postman, who was walking right past them unnoticed because he was a postman - - a "mentally" invisible man. Brown's evidently superior moral and psychological vision - - his intuition again - - enabled him to see what the others could not.
	www.chesterton.org /gs/V1N7.BrownsMethods.html (1390 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Complete Father Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Father Brown's simple manner makes you quick to underestimate him, but the startling flashes of brilliance that spill from beneath his humble exterior soon make you realize that he has a firm grasp on the truth of a situation when you are as yet frustratingly distant from it.
		Father Brown is not so much concerned with preserving life or bringing a criminal to justice as he is with unravelling the strands of an impossible paradox.
		In fact, Chesterton's conception of Father Brown is itself a paradox - both a cleric and a crime-fighter, a priest and a policeman, a representative of God's mercy and an instrument of God's justice, a proclaimer of forgiveness and a seeker of guilt, a listener in the confessional and a questioner in the interrogation.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/014009766X (1700 words)

	Encyclopedia [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Browne structured his encyclopaedia upon the time-honoured schemata of the Renaissance, the so-called 'scale of creation' which ascends a hierarchical ladder via the mineral, vegetable, animal, human, planetary and cosmological worlds.
		Browne's compendium of refutations of common errors of his age was England's first popular household encyclopaedia.
		George Hamilton-Gordon is forced to resign as Prime Minister of Britain because of bad management of the campaigns in the Crimean War and the general unpopularity of that war.
	www.wikimirror.com /encyclopedia (13785 words)

	Encyclopedia Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brown said his mother typed many of the letters when she was in...
		Encyclopedia Brown is a fictional boy detective, the main character in a long series of children's books written by Donald J. Sobol.
		Encyclopedia Brown invariably solves the case by exposing this inconsistency, but this part of the story is placed at the end of the book; the bulk of the story ends just at the moment when readers are invited to solve the case themselves, or flip to the section in the back with the answers.
	www.wikiverse.org /encyclopedia-brown (522 words)

	COLUMN-FATHER BROWN AND COMPANY
		But in terms of Haycraft’s duality, the Father Brown stories belong decidedly on the romantic side, which was Chesterton’s explicit rationale for their existence.
		Father Brown, Auden pointed out, is unique as a detective in being able to offer compassion and forgiveness as well as apprehension and punishment.
		The Father Brown stories will be read as long as detective fiction itself is read, perhaps not for the reasons their author proposed but as excursions into the unfamiliar universe of moral and metaphysical allegory.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Dossier/1998-05-06/company.html (1353 words)

	The Theology Of Father Brown « The Blog Of Dysfunction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Father Brown often makes profound statements with the humility of Moses and the authority of Paul, all this while getting into the mind of the criminal and solving with incredible ease what are seemingly, the most incredulously unsolavable crimes.
		The theological richness of his words is astounding, and inspite of their depth, they gel in perfectly with the rest of the story and the character of Father Brown.
		Father, thank you, for loving me so much, for giving me Jesus who died for a deparved dead man like me, for the forgiveness of sins, for grace to live each day and for blessing me with all the heavenly belssings.
	tgnrules.wordpress.com /2006/06/13/the-theology-of-father-brown (603 words)

	Garrett Brown
		Brown felt he had done enough on the agency side, however, and decided to open his own production company and direct.
		Brown taught himself to shoot, built a studio in a barn, and filled it with purchases from a bankrupt production house in the area.
		Brown checked into a motel and stayed in his room for a solid week, balancing brooms on his fingers, dashing out to hardware stores and studying old drawings.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Lot/7385/garrettbrown.htm (1353 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Robert Hamer's The Detective (aka: Father Brown)
		Father Brown (Guinness) is not just another in the long line of British amateur sleuths who solves crimes as a hobby, he's also a priest, concerned with saving the malefactors' souls.
		In fact, part of Father Brown's technique is a kind of early form of profiling; time and again he places himself in the criminal's mind and works out how he might be thinking.
		Chesterton's original Father Brown adventures are just short stories, perhaps for good reason--and certain actions of the good Father are difficult to reconcile with his character (like fooling the police into arresting an innocent man).
	brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.moviedetail/movie_id/26 (497 words)

	The Innocence of Father Brown: The Queer Feet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Father Brown flung down his paper, and, knowing the office door to be locked, went at once into the cloak-room on the other side.
		Father Brown took the paper without a word, and obediently went to look for the coat; it was not the first menial work he had done in his life.
		Father Brown buttoned up his commonplace overcoat to the neck, for the night was stormy, and took his commonplace umbrella from the stand.
	www.ccel.org /c/chesterton/innocence/qrfeet.html (7132 words)

	Teens reluctantly testify at father's murder trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The elder Brown is accused of first-degree murder in connection with the Nov. 29 shooting death of 7-year-old Deva White.
		Brown Jr., a freshman at Finney High School, followed his sister on the stand and told jurors he never heard his father admit to the shooting, despite earlier police statements and statements to prosecutors.
		Ronald Brown, 42, is accused in the drive-by shooting death of Deva White, 7.
	www.freep.com /news/locway/grandtheft2e_20050602.htm (870 words)

	The Detective [Father Brown] (1954)
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Brown is of course in trouble for his interference in the pursuit of Flambeau).
		Brown has the verbal wit of Chesterton's hero, but shows no special detective flair (until the last act, in which he locates Flambeau's secret estate in a way that is not especially memorable).
	decentfilms.com /reviews/detective.html (1514 words)

	Memorable Quotes from Father Brown (1954) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Father Brown: Looking for a fl cat in a coal hole during an eclipse of the sun would be a child's task compared with mine.
		Father Brown: My son, you think that you are a man of the world and that I am not.
		Father Brown: And that the sun is moving from west to east.
	indie.imdb.com /Quotes?0046970 (1049 words)

	Amazon.com: Father Brown - Set 1: DVD: Peter Jefferies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He drew from his friend, Father John O'Connor, for certain particulars of Father Brown, but he got the idea overhearing an aside from two Oxford undergraduates saying what a shame it was for a man to throw himself away in the priesthood, avoiding, as he must be, the various shocks of the real world.
		Father Brown stories began appearing in The Saturday Evening Post in 1910, and found their way onto TV in the states when they aired on PBS' "Mystery!" in the mid- '70s.
		In the stories by G. Chesterton, Father Brown uses his theology and quite a bit of metaphysics to come to conclusions about behavior, crime and people; Chesterton uses the device of Father Brown to be the reason for these discussions as crime is being solved.
	www.amazon.com /Father-Brown-Set-Peter-Jefferies/dp/B000K7UBUM (1985 words)

	MWP: Larry Brown (1951-2004)
		Born July 9, 1951, in Oxford, Mississippi, Brown is sometimes compared to fellow Oxford resident William Faulkner because of their similar origins and education: both briefly attended the University of Mississippi (without graduating), and both learned their craft as writers in large measure by avid reading.
		Brown worked in a number of jobs over the years, including carpenter, lumberjack, fence builder, carpet cleaner, housepainter, hay hauler, and store employee, but he began his writing career during his career as a firefighter, a job he held from 1973 to 1990, when he retired to write full-time.
		Brown’s fiction continued to chronicle the downtrodden and disheartened denizens of the American South.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/brown_larry (719 words)

	The Innocence of Father Brown: The Wrong Shape
		Father Brown and Flambeau, however, kept this weird contradiction to themselves, and Dr. Harris was not a man to waste his thoughts on the impossible.
		Father Brown seemed to be studying the paper more than the corpse; he held it close to his eyes; and seemed trying to read it in the twilight.
		Father Brown carefully folded up the letter, and put it in his breast pocket just as there came a loud peal at the gate bell, and the wet waterproofs of several policemen gleamed in the road outside.
	eserver.org /fiction/innocence/wrongshape.html (6115 words)

	The Brown Bear: Father of the Polar Bear?, Alaska Science Forum
		With DNA evidence, Shields and his colleagues have launched a new hypothesis--brown bears may have appeared first; polar bears may have arisen from brown bears that wandered north and, over thousands of years, began to sprout white fur and teeth that were better for ripping apart seals than munching berries.
		As time passed, the brown bear that spawned the polar bear died everywhere in Alaska but the ABC islands, which served as a refuge during the last glacial period.
		When the last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago, brown bears from farther south in North America slowly expanded their range to Alaska, but they neglected to swim the waters of the Inside Passage and mix with brown bears of the ABC islands.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF13/1314.html (755 words)

	Father Brown (1954) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
		My father!") Guinness did not speak French, so he could not correct the young boy's mistake, but was touched that the young boy apparently immediately bonded to him on the assumption that he was a priest.
		What makes it more intriguing than the average crime/mystery movie is that from the start Father Brown is more interested in reforming the criminal than in punishing him.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0046970 (433 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Father Brown: SELECTED Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness.
		Father Brown is the archetypal bumbler who is actually quite adept at finding out who committed the crime.
		Father Brown's tongue never fails to produce profound paradoxical gems such as "The point of the pin was that it was pointless." (p.273).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1853260037 (1471 words)

	Favorite Father Brown Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) - GoldBamboo Store
		Father Brown, a man of the church, is not entirely naïve and innocent.
		Father Brown is an endearing character, and his intellect is impressive (but then again, what literary detective's isn't?).
		I was disappointed with one thing: I had the impression that Father Brown was a detective in the sense that he solved crimes for the police, like Sherlock Holmes.
	goldbamboo.com /store-1detail-20486275450.html (733 words)

	The Complete "Father Brown", by G. K. Chesterton (chapter41)
		Father Brown neither knew nor cared that his attitudes were comic or commonplace.
		Father Brown had risen and shaken his shapeless clothes, and stood looking at the young man with screwed up eyes and slightly quizzical expression.
		Father Brown was playing with the pins that lay beside the general’s map; he seemed to listen rather absent-mindedly.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /c/c52fb/chapter41.html (7591 words)

	The Innocence of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith Chesterton: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		"The Innocence of Father Brown" is the first book of G.K. Chesterton's ingenious, thoughtful and lyrically written mystery short stories featuring the unassuming little priest who solves crimes by imagining himself inside the mind and soul of the criminal and understanding his motives.
		Father Brown looked him full in his frowning face.
		I think this is a great book,I have to read it for my English class in collge just to let you know so I love it and I think it is a nice work.I am sending tis note just to encourage you keep it up.
	www.online-literature.com /chesterton/innocence_father_brown (458 words)

	Gilbert K. Chesterton : The Innocence of Father Brown : The Hammer of God
		Father Brown had fixed his eyes on the speaker so long and steadily as to prove that his large grey, ox-like eyes were not quite so insignificant as the rest of his face.
		Father Brown was mounting the first step to follow him when he felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned to behold the dark, thin figure of the doctor, his face darker yet with suspicion.
		"Well," added Father Brown, with a broad smile, "that fairy tale was the nearest thing to the real truth that has been said today." And with that he turned his back and stumped up the steps after the curate.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.442/sec.9 (5996 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Father Brown, Detective : Plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this made for TV movie, Father Brown tends to a parish in the heart of Manhattan--and delights in using his intellectual resources to solve baffling mysteries.
		Though this 2-hour pilot did not graduate to a series, the "Father Brown" concept would later be reworked into a moderately successful TV weekly, Father Dowling Mysteries, starring Tom Bosley in the title role.
		Father Brown, Detective has been reissued to home video and TV under two alternate titles: Sanctuary of Fear and Girl in the Park.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/85570/plot.jhtml (181 words)

	The Complete "Father Brown", by G. K. Chesterton (chapter51)
		Her brown eyes were brave to the point of battle, and her enigmatic mouth, humorous and rather large, suggested that her purposes touching the parson’s poetical son, whatever they might be, were planted pretty deep.
		However, Father Brown put down his glass of port with expressions of appreciation and thanks; and went off to meet his friend the doctor by appointment at the corner of the street; whence they were to go together to the offices of Mr Carver, the solicitor.
		But as they passed, Father Brown once turned his face to the young man; and the young man was one of the very few human beings who have seen that face implacable.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /c/chesterton/gk/c52fb/chapter51.html (6165 words)

	G.K. Chesterton: Father Brown Geschichten
		Father Brown ist unterdessen - nicht sichtbar, nur lesbar, aber immer sozusagen instabil lesbar: als in seinem Zeichencharakter bis fast zuletzt nicht gewisses Zeichen - im Off unterwegs, und zwar mit Flambeau.
		Father Brown wiederum erkennt die Absicht mit seinen Vertauschungstricks (Salz, Zucker, eine überteuerte Rechnung: nur einer, der auf Beute aus ist, ignoriert diese Widrigkeiten) und hinterlässt Spuren, mit Absicht.
		Father Brown überführt den Verbrecher Flambeau als Nicht-Kleriker: Sie glauben nicht an die Vernunft, sagt er, das ist ein sehr untheologischer Zug.
	www.crime-corner.de /kriminalerzaehlungen-fatherbrown.html (1957 words)

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