A history of humanity, Christ, and Christianity, this 1925 polemic famously converted C. S. Lewis from atheism. Chesterton's view of Christianity — as a rare blend of philosophy and mythology, satisfying to both intellect and spiri...

In 'The Dying Detective,' Sherlock Holmes comes close to death, or so his long-suffering colleague, Dr. Watson, thinks. In 'The Assassins' Club,' a murder occurs at a dinner table full of crime novelists. 'The Case of the Tragedies of...

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, a remarkable achievement, turns his hand to the genial but...

Detective fans of all races and creeds will delight in the exploits of this wise and whimsical little Norfolk priest.

Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word "orthodox". In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the...

This classic novel by Chesterton tells the rollicking tale of Innocent Smith, a man who may be crazy-or he may be the most sane man of all. Arriving at a London boarding house accompanied by a windstorm, Innocent is soon accused of at...

Orthodoxy is the spiritual autobiography of G. K. Chesterton, considered to be the father of modern popular spiritual writing. Since it was first published in 1908, it has not lost its power as a timeless argument for the simple plaus...

From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest takes on bandits, traitors and killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is ...

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 detec...

At first, The Man Who Was Thursday seems no more than a detective story that also has both poetry and politics, as well. But it soon becomes a mystery that grows more mysterious, until it is nothing less than the mystery of creation i...