The Innocence of Father Brown Audiobook By G. K. Chesterton cover art

The Innocence of Father Brown

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

The Innocence of Father Brown

By: G. K. Chesterton
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $20.00

Buy for $20.00

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

First published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown contains stories involving one of the greatest characters in the history of detective fiction: Father Brown. He is a Roman Catholic priest who has an uncanny insight into human evil. Rather than the large serial villains in, for example, Sherlock Holmes stories, the mysteries Father Brown solved were more local murders by small-town crooks, narrowing the suspect list down to those in the area of the crime. The cozy mystery style that The Innocence of Father Brown conveys sparked a revolution at the time, bringing it to the forefront of the detective fiction genre.

Public Domain (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Mystery Traditional Detectives British Classics

Listeners also enjoyed...
The Man Who Was Thursday: Centennial Edition Audiobook By G. K. Chesterton, Chesterton Books cover art
The Man Who Was Thursday: Centennial Edition By: G. K. Chesterton, and others
Manalive Audiobook By G. K. Chesterton cover art
Manalive By: G. K. Chesterton
Father Brown Audiobook By G. K. Chesterton cover art
Father Brown By: G. K. Chesterton
Killing Jesus Audiobook By Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard cover art
Killing Jesus By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
The Man Who Was Thursday Audiobook By G. K. Chesterton cover art
The Man Who Was Thursday By: G. K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross Audiobook By G. K. Chesterton cover art
The Ball and the Cross By: G. K. Chesterton
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories Audiobook By Agatha Christie cover art
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories By: Agatha Christie
Father Brown: The Complete Series 1 and 2 Audiobook By G. K. Chesterton cover art
Father Brown: The Complete Series 1 and 2 By: G. K. Chesterton
Galileo's Daughter Audiobook By Dava Sobel cover art
Galileo's Daughter By: Dava Sobel
The Pickwick Papers (AmazonClassics Edition) Audiobook By Charles Dickens cover art
The Pickwick Papers (AmazonClassics Edition) By: Charles Dickens
Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection Audiobook By Stephen Fry, Washington Irving, M.R. James, Amelia B. Edwards, Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Riddell, Bram Stoker cover art
Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection By: Stephen Fry, and others
The House of Arden Audiobook By Edith Nesbit cover art
The House of Arden By: Edith Nesbit
Masked Ball at Broxley Manor Audiobook By Rhys Bowen cover art
Masked Ball at Broxley Manor By: Rhys Bowen
The Josephine Tey Collection: 6 Alan Grant Novels; Brat Farrar; & Miss Pym Disposes Audiobook By Josephine Tey cover art
The Josephine Tey Collection: 6 Alan Grant Novels; Brat Farrar; & Miss Pym Disposes By: Josephine Tey
A Quiet Life in the Country Audiobook By T E Kinsey cover art
A Quiet Life in the Country By: T E Kinsey
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Audiobook By Mark Twain cover art
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court By: Mark Twain
Murder on Thames Audiobook By Neil Richards, Matthew Costello cover art
Murder on Thames By: Neil Richards, and others
Julius Caesar: The Arkangel Shakespeare Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Julius Caesar: The Arkangel Shakespeare By: William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra Audiobook By William Shakespeare cover art
Antony and Cleopatra By: William Shakespeare
The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder on the Links Audiobook By Agatha Christie cover art
The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder on the Links By: Agatha Christie

People who viewed this also viewed...

The Complete Father Brown Collection Audiobook By G. K. Chesterton cover art
The Complete Father Brown Collection By: G. K. Chesterton
Father Brown: The Complete Series 1 and 2 Audiobook By G. K. Chesterton cover art
Father Brown: The Complete Series 1 and 2 By: G. K. Chesterton
Most relevant  
Interesting to see how the TV series adapted the character for the better. # tags giving #Sweepstakes

Not Father Brown of PBS

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
These short stories had little in them to generate interest. Solve a few murders he did, but he went the long way around the lake to get there. Almost never did he have interaction with other than a couple characters at most. Overall, very disappointing after seeing the TV stories about Father Brown. Actually, in this book, Flambeau was more of a focus character and a murder solver than Father Brown.

Nothing Like the Father Brown Stories on TV

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
These are short stories that feature the character Father Brown, but only peripherally. The viewpoing is not Father Brown's. There is no character development - in fact, there is no character, period. I did want to listen to the stories - but this narrator is so grating that i ended up sampling all the versions available and buying a different version just to finish. It really was not worth it.

The narrator sounds fake and pompous. This is not the first book he has ruined for me, but it will be the last.

The writing style is typical of the period - convuluted and bristling with similes - he can't just stare into the fire, he has to gaze vacantly at the leaping and crcklong crimson flames as they danced like drunken faeries on the moldy, old logs....if you're okay with that, go for it - but sample all the versions before you get this one.

Book...meh. Narrator...bleah.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.