father brown complete murder mysteries: the innocence of father brown, the wisdom of father brown, the donnington affair...  shabby and lumbering, with a face like a norfolk dumpling, father brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. but his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself...