Aristide Valentin, head of the Paris police, is on the trail of Flambeau, a notorious French criminal and master of disguise, believed to be in London. Valentin follows both his instincts and a series of clues, but is baffled by the intervention of a strange little priest...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English author, theologian, philosopher and critic, who produced a wide-ranging output of fiction, poetry and journalism. His writing covered a wide variety of subjects, ranging from crime fiction to Christianity. His most famous novel is probably the "metaphysical thriller" 'The Man Who Was Thursday' (1908), but his most famous fictional creation is surely Father Brown, the Catholic priest-detective who featured in more than 50 short stories published episodically between 1910 and 1936. A complete contrast to his (near) contemporary Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown is quiet, unassuming and solves crimes with instinct, intuition and a deep understanding of human nature.
'The Blue Cross' was first story to feature the character of Father Brown, although the main protagonist in this adventure is really the French detective Valentin, who is in pursuit of Flambeau, a criminal celebrity. (Flambeau was to appear in many subsequent Father Brown tales, having renounced a life of crime and become a detective himself.) The story was first published in the USA, on 23 July 1910 in the Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, under the title 'Valentin Follows a Curious Trail'. It was subsequently published in London in the September 1910 issue of Story-Teller magazine, and the following year as the first story in 'The Innocence of Father Brown', the first of several books which comprise the Father Brown series.
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19 июн 2020
