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Famous detectives in literature
Going to start off with GK Chesterton's Father Brown
But before that here is one quote which I love:
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
Now, about Father Brown:
Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for conveying Chesterton's view of the world and, of all of his characters, is perhaps closest to Chesterton's own point of view, or at least the effect of his point of view. Father Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths rather than scientific details, making him an almost equal counterbalance with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whose stories Chesterton read and admired. However, the Father Brown series commenced before Chesterton's own conversion to Catholicism.
Sadly, not so well known today but a true genius!
But before that here is one quote which I love:
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
Now, about Father Brown:
Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for conveying Chesterton's view of the world and, of all of his characters, is perhaps closest to Chesterton's own point of view, or at least the effect of his point of view. Father Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths rather than scientific details, making him an almost equal counterbalance with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whose stories Chesterton read and admired. However, the Father Brown series commenced before Chesterton's own conversion to Catholicism.
Sadly, not so well known today but a true genius!
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Permalink Reply by Anabel García Ugrotte on
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Nothing like Sherlock! I am sorry I will miss it.
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