The Complete Father Brown" by G.K. Chesterton, with preface by Auberon Waugh, published by Dodd, Mead & Company, 1982. First BC edition with "Book Club Edition" imprinted on the front flap. 993-page collection of the 51 Father Brown stories.

Includes all five published collections complete, and also "The Vampire of the Village," Not included are only three stories: "The Donnington Affair," "Father Brown solves the Donnington Affair," and "The Mask of Midas"

Dust jacket; brown hard boards with brown cloth spine; gold lettering on spine; 5.3/4" x 8.1/2"; "(L) 2009" is ink written on the front endpaper; 993 pages, very good condition.

"Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths. This complete collection contains all the favorite 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 in a totally believable manner."

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. Baptized into the Church of England, Chesterton underwent a crisis of faith as a young man and became fascinated with the occult. He eventually converted to Roman Catholicism and published some of Christianity's most influential apologetics, including Heretics and Orthodoxy.

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