Will Father Brown discover who killed the well-to-do Nair duel?

It appears as though he was stricken with the hammer of God.

G.K. Chesterton, today on the Classic Tales Podcast.

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G.K. Chesterton was most notable for his creation of Father Brown.

This unlooked for and often unwelcome detective is actually not a detective, but rather an individual

trained to think as criminals think, for he has heard so many of their confessions.

He knows how their minds work and can piece together many things that others cannot.

Today's story is from the first collection of Father Brown stories entitled The Innocence

of Father Brown.

And now The Hammer of God by G.K. Chesterton.

The little village of Bowen Beacon was perched on a hill so steep that the tall spire of

its church seemed only like the peak of a small mountain.

At the foot of the church stood a smithy, generally read with fires and always littered with

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