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The Secret Garden: A Father Brown Mystery
Written by G. K. Chesterton
Narrated by Arthur James
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Listeners will delight in these masterful chronicles of the adventures and mishaps of Father Brown. Small, round-faced and engagingly innocent, Brown is a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia. He also happens to be a top-notch detective, possessing that rarest of all gifts - an intuition that never fails.
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G. K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer, philosopher and critic known for his creative wordplay. Born in London, Chesterton attended St. Paul’s School before enrolling in the Slade School of Fine Art at University College. His professional writing career began as a freelance critic where he focused on art and literature. He then ventured into fiction with his novels The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who Was Thursday as well as a series of stories featuring Father Brown.
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Reviews for The Secret Garden
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Valentin, Chief of the Paris Police, arrives late for his dinner party, a party that includes Father Brown. After dinner a body is found in the secluded, enclosed back garden. Can Father Brown solve the mystery.
Interesting short story.