La innocència del pare Brown

Father Brown, this short, fat, naïve-looking priest, who moves about accompanied by his umbrella, has one of the most extraordinary deductive powers in all the literature of intrigue. G. K. Chesterton conceived his detective in the shadow of Sherlock Holmes, although where Conan Doyle's prodigy uses the coolness of logic and scientific detail to decipher the enigmas, Father Brown puts intuition first while unfolds the moral knowledge of someone who has spent many hours in the confessional. Father Brown convinces us that all men's misdeeds arise from having betrayed some obvious and forgotten elementary truths. Without the sagacity of the moralist, logic and deduction are doomed to failure. However, the murky magic of Chesterton's mysteries is always resolved with explanations from this earthly world, and never by appealing to miracles or metaphysics.