Gilbert Keith Die Einfalt des Pater Brown. Die ersten zwölf Kriminalgeschichten um den Priester und Detektiv
Erstdruck dieser Zusammenstellung als »The Innocence of Father Brown«, London, Cassell, 1911. Hier in der Übersetzung von Hedwig Maria von Lama unter dem Titel »Priester und Detektiv«, Regensburg, Pustet, 1920.
Inhaltsverzeichnis Die Einfalt des Pater Brown Vorwort Das blaue Kreuz Der geheime Garten Die verdächtigen Tritte Die Sternschnuppen Der Unsichtbare Israel Gows Ehre Mißgestaltet Die Sünden des Prinzen Saradin Der Hammer Gottes Das Auge des Apoll Das Zeichen des zerbrochenen Schwertes Die drei Todeswerkzeuge Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2017.
Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Heiner Hawel, Geistlicher mit Hut, 2017.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.
Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.