The Wisdom of Father Brown

The main character of these stories is a fictional person, a Catholic priest. He is described as a small fat man of an ordinary appearance, absent-minded and sometimes funny; however, he is sharp-witted and can understand the views and motives of another person.

Father Brown's basic method to investigate crimes is to put himself in the place of another person; he manages to do it even with the absolute villains due to his Christian humility. But the ways of God are inscrutable...