‘… there sprang up in my own mind the vague idea of… constructing a comedy in which a priest should appear to know nothing and in fact knew more about crime than the criminal.’ Chesterton was taken with Father O’Connor’s apparent innocence regarding worldly matters but he realised that actually, the priest had a great understanding of the dark way of human nature. He was based on a Roman Catholic curate, Father O’Connor, whom the author encountered on a walking holiday in Yorkshire in 1903. This fascinating character, the mild-mannered priest with a brain as sharp as a scythe, was the brainchild of G. Despite being created over a hundred years ago, Father Brown, the sleuthing cleric is once more in vogue as the very popular BBC television series starring Mark Williams has proved.
Father Brown David Stuart Davies looks at the history of the ever-popular priest with a flair for detection.
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