<P> Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G.K. Chesterton . Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature . Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. John Monsignor O'Connor ( 1870 -- 1952 ) , a parish priest in Bradford , who was involved in Chesterton 's conversion to Catholicism in 1922 . </P>
<P> Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G.K. Chesterton . Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature . Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. John Monsignor O'Connor ( 1870 -- 1952 ) , a parish priest in Bradford , who was involved in Chesterton 's conversion to Catholicism in 1922 . </P>
who wrote the ' father brown ' crime stories
who wrote the ' father brown ' crime stories
G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton