THE BLUE CROSS A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY by G.K. CHESTERTON

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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METhe Blue Cross is the first of G.K. Chesterton's 53 great Father brown short stories, and it introduces two characters that are often used in future stories- French Detective Valentin and the master criminal Flambeau- who will soon be reforming and coming to the good side in future stories. In this story Valentine is after a rare and valuable Blue Cross which he knows Father Brown is carrying with him from a council meeting, and believes the good Father is a simpleton and an easy mark.

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. A big thank you to
0:34.9	all of you who have been kind enough to send his reviews. They are greatly
0:38.2	appreciated. As all of our long-term listeners know, this podcast is the culmination of my personal quest
0:44.6	to bring as many people as I can to enjoy classic short stories.
0:48.9	It has succeeded beyond my imagination, and I'm grateful to all of you for staying with me on this journey of
0:53.7	discovery. I have said it before and I'll say it again. I am not a polished professional
0:58.3	reader and I don't own a stuffed armchair. I find the stories I like and I do the best job I can sharing them with you.
1:05.0	Years ago my older sister who recognized even at my young age that I was enjoying classics
1:10.0	gave me a collection of Father Brown's short stories, which I enjoyed very much, and due to this day.
1:16.0	Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest, an amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936, written by English novelist G.K. Chesterton.
1:29.0	Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature.
1:35.0	Chesterton loosely based him on the right Reverend John O'Connor, a parish priest in Bradford, England,
1:41.0	who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922. in with shapeless clothes, a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil.
1:56.0	Unlike the better known fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown's methods tend to be intuitive rather than deductive.
2:05.2	Father Brown makes his first appearance in the story we're offering you today,
2:08.5	The Blue Cross, published in 1910, and continues to appear throughout 50 short stories in five volumes with two more stories
2:15.9	discovered and published posthumously and is often assisted in his crime solving by the
2:21.1	reformed criminal M. Erircule Flambeau.
2:25.0	Brown's abilities are also considerably shaped by his experience as a priest and
2:28.8	confessor.
2:30.0	In this story, the Blue Cross, when asked by Flambeau, who's been masquerading as a priest,
2:35.5	how he knew of all sorts of criminal horrors, Father Brown responds,
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