A celebrated detective. A master criminal. A trail of broken windows, spilled soup, and strangely misplaced signs.
And in the middle of it all, an unassuming little priest carrying a blue cross.
“The Blue Cross” is the story that introduced Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton’s quiet, deceptively ordinary priest-detective, to the world.
French detective Aristide Valentin has come to London in pursuit of the brilliant thief Flambeau. What begins as a conventional manhunt soon becomes something much stranger, as Valentin follows a trail of apparently senseless disturbances across the city.
Someone is leaving clues.
But who—and for whom?
First published in 1910, The Blue Cross established many of the qualities that would make the Father Brown stories enduring classics: mystery, humor, paradox, moral insight, and Chesterton’s conviction that understanding human nature can be more powerful than merely collecting evidence.
Settle in and enjoy the beginning of one of literature’s great detective series.
G. K. Chesterton’s The Blue Cross
A Chesterton Radio audiobook presentation.
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