"Father Brown (2013 TV series) Father Brown is a British television Detective period drama which began airing on BBC One on 14 January 2013. It features Mark Williams as the eponymous crime-solving Roman Catholic priest. The series is loosely based on short stories by G. K. Chesterton. The series is set during the early 1950s, in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford, where Father Brown, priest at St Mary's Catholic Church, solves murder cases. A bumbling police inspector, who often arrests the wrong suspect, gets annoyed by Father Brown's success. Father Brown uses the distinctive skills of his close friends"
"detective fiction, including five novels and a short story featuring Miles Bredon, who is employed as a private investigator by the Indescribable Insurance Company. Directed by his religious superiors, he retranslated the ""Latin Vulgate Bible"" into English, using Hebrew and Greek sources, beginning in 1936. His works on religious themes include: ""Some Loose Stones"" (1913), ""Reunion All Round"" (1914), ""A Spiritual Aeneid"" (1918), ""The Belief of Catholics"" (1927), ""Caliban in Grub Street"" (1930), ""Heaven and Charing Cross"" (1935), ""Let Dons Delight"" (1939) and ""Captive Flames"" (1940). When G. K. Chesterton died in 1936, Knox delivered a panegyric for his Requiem"
"Inspector Lestrade Inspector G. Lestrade, or Mr. Lestrade ( ), is a fictional character appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle used the name of a friend from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a Saint Lucian medical student, Joseph Alexandre Lestrade. In ""The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"", Lestrade's first initial is revealed to be G. He is described as “a little sallow rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow” in ""A Study in Scarlet"" and “a lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking”,"" in ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"". In the popular London media, Lestrade"
"Catholic faith was influenced in part by the English writer G. K. Chesterton, before Chesterton himself became Catholic. When Chesterton was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1922, he in turn was influenced by Knox. Knox wrote and broadcast on Christianity and other subjects. While Roman Catholic chaplain at the University of Oxford (1926–1939) and after his elevation to a monsignor in 1936, he wrote classic detective stories. In 1929 he codified the rules for detective stories into a ""decalogue"" of ten commandments. He was one of the founding members of the Detection Club and wrote several works of"
"and pettiness. Moreover, Chesterton is a great artist while Conan Doyle was a mediocre writer, even though he was knighted for literary merit; thus in Chesterton there is a stylistic gap between the content, the detective story plot, and the form, and therefore a subtle irony with regard to the subject being dealt with, which renders these stories so delicious. Like Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Nero Wolfe, tales featuring Chesterton's priest detective continue to be created even after the original author's death. John Peterson has written a further forty-four mysteries solved by Father Brown. In the Italian novel"
"for some strange occurrence, but Father Brown easily sees the perfectly ordinary, natural explanation. In fact, he seems to represent an ideal of a devout but considerably educated and ""civilised"" clergyman. That can be traced to the influence of Roman Catholic thought on Chesterton. Father Brown is characteristically humble and is usually rather quiet, except to say something profound. Although he tends to handle crimes with a steady, realistic approach, he believes in the supernatural as the greatest reason of all. Father Brown was a vehicle for conveying Chesterton's view of the world and, of all of his characters, is"
"K. Chesterton's Father Brown, with a bit of Ian Fleming's James Bond thrown in. In his first three appearances especially, Tallis provides both spiritual leadership and insight into the realms of crime and international intrigue. The character Canon Tallis appears in the following books: In The Arm of the Starfish (1965), protagonist Adam Eddington first sees Tallis at JFK Airport, accompanied by twelve-year-old Polly O'Keefe. Adam is immediately warned against him by Carolyn ""Kali"" Cutter. She identifies him as a real priest attached to the diocese of Gibraltar, but also calls him a ""phony"". Despite the apparent innocence of a"
"G. K. Chesterton and the poet and parliamentarian Hilaire Belloc. He met Henry James who he found to be more English than American at a New Year's Eve party at the home of the writer Edmund Gosse. He made a pilgrimage to Plymouth: ""From Plymouth, as you know, sailed forth the blue-nosed Puritans to make laws just as blue and to burn witches in Massachusetts."" He also studied at Oxford University: ""I'm spending a short time up here in this picturesque place of dead creeds and living prejudices. Have been attending special lectures and studying the life. It appears to"
"his exposure to Holmes. By the same token, Lestrade is one of the few people besides Dr. Watson who is capable of moving Holmes on an emotional level, in ""The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"". He was described by H. Paul Jeffers in the following words: He is the most famous detective ever to walk the corridors of Scotland Yard, yet he existed only in the fertile imagination of a writer. He was Inspector Lestrade. We do not know his first name, only his initial: ""G"". Although he appears thirteen times in the immortal adventures of Sherlock Holmes, nothing is"
"He died in 1956 in London at the age of 80. His son Nicolas Bentley was a famous illustrator. Phonographic recordings of his work ""Recordings for the Blind"" are heard in the film ""Places in the Heart"", by the character Mr. Will. G. K. Chesterton dedicated his popular detective novel on anarchist terrorism, ""The Man Who Was Thursday"", to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, a school friend. While he is best known for his crime fiction and clerihews, Bentley also wrote at least one science fiction short story. This is the recently re-discovered ""Flying Visit"", published in the [London] ""Evening Standard"" on"
"perhaps closest to Chesterton's own point of view, or at least the effect of his point of view. Father Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths than with scientific details, making him an almost equal counterbalance with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whose stories Chesterton read. However, the Father Brown series commenced before Chesterton's own conversion to Roman Catholicism. In his ""Letters from Prison"", the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci made this partisan declaration of his preference: Father Brown is a Catholic who pokes fun at the mechanical thought processes"
"and enhanced Doyle's sketchy portrait of the Inspector."" Unusually, in this series, Lestrade's name was pronounced with a long ""a"" sound, rhyming with ""trade"", as opposed to the usual practice in screen or audio adaptations of using the French pronunciation. Inspector Lestrade Inspector G. Lestrade, or Mr. Lestrade ( ), is a fictional character appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle used the name of a friend from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a Saint Lucian medical student, Joseph Alexandre Lestrade. In ""The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"", Lestrade's first"
"The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond is G. K. Chesterton's final collection of detective stories, published after his death in 1936. Of the eight mysteries, seven were first printed in the ""Storyteller"" magazine. ""The Unmentionable Man"" was unique to the book. The stories revolve around a civil servant named Mr. Pond (we are not told his first name). He is described as a very ordinary and fish-like man who has a habit of startling those who meet him with outrageous paradoxical statements. He seems unaware of the oddness of his remarks, and his friend Sir Hubert"
"The Man Who Was Thursday The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues that revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting the essence of poetry is not revolution but law. He antagonises Gregory by"
"Manalive Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the ""holy fool"", such as in Dostoevsky's ""The Idiot"" and Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"". This is a book in two parts. The first, ""The Enigma of Innocent Smith"", concerns the arrival of a new tenant at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment. Like Mary Poppins, this man (who is tentatively identified by lodger Arthur Inglewood as an ex-schoolmate named Innocent Smith) is accompanied by a great wind, and he breathes new life into the household with his games"
"Philip Hesketh Philip John Hesketh (born 15 November 1964) is a British Anglican priest. Since June 2016, he has served as the Dean of Rochester, the head of the chapter of Rochester Cathedral and the most senior priest in the Diocese of Rochester. Hesketh was born on 15 November 1964 in Southport, Lancashire, England. He was brought up on the Isle of Man, and educated at St Ninian's High School, Douglas. In 1983, he moved to London and matriculated into King's College London to study divinity. He graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) degree and the Associateship"
"Gibsonton to investigate a 28-year series of attacks by an unknown assailant in a community of former circus sideshow performers. They attend the funeral of the ""Alligator Man"" (who suffered from Ichthyosis). Among the people they meet afterwards are ""self-made freaks"" human blockhead Dr. Blockhead (Jim Rose) (who interrupted the funeral by hammering a railroad spike into his own chest) and his ""geek"" sidekick The Conundrum (The Enigma), who will eat anything, but says nothing. The agents also meet former performer Jim Jim, the Dogface Boy, who later became the local sheriff after his face went through hair loss. Mulder"
"above framing his brother for his crimes, Blaine appears three times: in ""The Face in the Mirror Mystery"", ""The Woman Scorned Mystery"", and ""The Fugitive Priest Mystery"". Father Philip Prestwick, who provides comic relief, is a social-climbing assistant to the Archbishop. Fr. Phil just happens to drop in before every meal. Mrs. Marie Gillespie is both the parish secretary and housekeeper for the rectory (where priests reside). The other recurring character is a female Chicago police officer, Detective Sergeant Clancy (Regina Krueger), who is Father Dowling's friend and principal police contact in the two ABC seasons. In season 3, Dick"
"four in 1992. He has a son, Max, with his second wife, Penny; Max played the young Michael Jackson in the West End production of the musical ""Thriller – Live"". Peters splits his time between a house in the Charles Village section of Baltimore, which he bought in 2006 while working on ""The Wire"", and one in London, where Penny and Max live. He is a follower of the Brahma Kumaris. Clarke Peters Peter Clarke (born April 7, 1952), known professionally as Clarke Peters, is an American actor, singer, writer and director, best known for his roles as detective Lester"
"also featured the city of London as a major 'character'. Publisher Vertigo described the series as a ""fast-paced, ultra-cool ongoing crime-noir series,"" featuring ""an unlikely quartet of occult detectives secretly solv[ing] crimes — from DJ crack bars in Camden to the elegant, high-society ballrooms that make up modern London."" The four-man group is led by minor celebrity DJ Morrison Shepherd, the ""son of an ex-footballer"" recently released from prison. Shepherd is aided by Perv (Callum O'Connor), an ex-con clairvoyant ""whose seizures give him clues to crimes long before the cops,"" Leah King, a morgue assistant who moonlights as an internet"
"especially skilled in interrogation, and is depicted as a master of getting confessions from suspects in ""the Box."" Through a mixture of sympathy, confusion and fear, Pembleton almost always gets a suspect to crack. At the same time, he often fails to endear himself to his fellow detectives, who resent his black-and-white attitude toward the job and arrogant demeanor. Frank's religious faith is tested in the three-part premiere of Season 3, when he investigates a series of killings that are revealed to have been religiously-motivated. The thought that God can allow such crimes to be committed greatly disturbs Frank, and"
"Jacobs - Silverton's sheriff. He always emanates disapproval towards Cameryn every time she is at a crime scene. He acknowledges that there is something between Cameryn and Justin.<br> Dr. Moore - the nearest forensic pathologist to which any victims can be brought. He is very hot-tempered and believes himself to be the 'captain of the ship'. So he doesn't enjoy it when Cameryn states she sees something, which was unseen to him and he implies that she is only an amateur. He enjoys listening to opera music while performing autopsies. <br> Raymond Jewel - world-renowned psychic. He is the one"
"Everlasting Man"". Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an ""orthodox"" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, his ""friendly enemy"", said of him, ""He was a man of colossal genius."" Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin. Chesterton was born in Campden Hill in Kensington, London, the son of Marie Louise, née Grosjean, and Edward Chesterton. He was baptised at the age of one month into the Church"
"subject both duelists judge of utmost importance). The Ball and the Cross The Ball and the Cross is a novel by G. K. Chesterton. The title refers to a more worldly and rationalist worldview, represented by a ball or sphere, and the cross representing Christianity. The first chapters of the book were serialized from 1905 to 1906 with the completed work published in 1909. The novel's beginning involves debates about rationalism and religion between a Professor Lucifer and a monk named Michael. A part of this section was quoted in Pope John Paul I's Illustrissimi letter to G. K. Chesterton."
"and became the vicar of Beverley Minster in 1992. In 1996, he was appointed the 40th Bishop of Chester. Forster was consecrated a bishop (alongside John Packer, Bishop of Warrington and later Bishop of Ripon and Leeds) during a service at York Minster, by David Hope, Archbishop of York, on 13 November 1996. He was enthroned on 11 January 1997 and in 2001 took his seat as a Lord Spiritual in the House of Lords. In 2003, Forster raised controversy when he was investigated by the police for an alleged ""hate speech"" after suggesting that homosexual people should seek psychiatric"
"Inspector Ghote Inspector Ganesh V. Ghote (pronounced ""GO-tay"") is a fictional police officer who is the main character in H. R. F. Keating's detective novels. Ghote is an inspector in the police force of Bombay (a.k.a. Mumbai), India. Ghote first appeared in the novel ""The Perfect Murder"" (1964), in which his investigation of the apparent murder of the Parsi, Mr Perfect, was assisted informally by the Swedish UNESCO analyst Axel Svensson. The novel, which Keating wrote without ever having been to India, won a Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and was adapted into a film in 1988 by Merchant"
"his religious beliefs. Such doubts arose after the death of his family. While treating Bishop Lionel Stewart (portrayed by James Cromwell), he seemed to come to terms with his bitterness, although he still wrestles with what God is and isn't responsible for. As an Attending, he is generally a patient teacher to residents and medical students, though his commitment to teaching sometimes frustrates nurses who are needed to dash from patient to patient. He and Dr. John Carter once had a strong rivalry arising from their feelings of attraction to Abby- to the point that a fencing match in ""Secrets"
"hired Dipper after he caught Dipper stealing his watch. Other characters in the series include Dr. Duncan MacGregor, a gruff Scottish-born physician who assists Kestrel in some of his cases; Dipper's sister Sally Stokes, a saucy street prostitute who helps Kestrel and Dipper solve the mysterious death of a ""fallen woman"" in ""A Broken Vessel"" and becomes Kestrel's lover; and Philippa Fontclair, a charming young girl whom Kestrel meets in ""Cut to the Quick"" and corresponds with in later novels. The novels are heavily influenced by other fictional British detectives, such as Lord Peter Wimsey and Sherlock Holmes. Kate Ross"
"Flambeau (character) M. Hercule Flambeau is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who appears in 48 short stories about the character Father Brown. A master criminal, his surname ""Flambeau"" is an alias, the French word for a flaming torch. He first appeared in the story ""The Blue Cross"" as a jewel thief. Father Brown foiled his attempted crimes in this and several other stories. As a notorious and elusive criminal, Flambeau is a worry for law-enforcers. He is exposed by Father Brown, and later becomes a detective himself. His last appearance as a thief occurs in"
"some stormy events in the character's love-life are rather humorously compared to Saint Dunstan's famous struggle with Satan. A fictionalised account of his life is told in the 2017 historical novel"" Dunstan"" by Conn Iggulden. Dunstan Dunstan (909 – 19 May 988 AD) was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church. His 11th-century biographer, Osbern, himself an artist and scribe, states that Dunstan was skilled in ""making a picture and forming letters"", as were other"
"he hears Wolfwood's voice. He is a priest; however, he spent the greater part of his life training to be an assassin under a priest he looked up to. He hardly ever feels any remorse for killing, especially when it's to protect the innocent. He and Vash have some minor disagreements on this matter, which is somewhat ironic due to their occupations as gunfighters. He frequently shows his frustration at an inability to live up to Vash's non-killing lifestyle, demonstrating the guilt he has for taking others’ lives, even while doing it for good purposes. He particularly looks out for"
"Donald Allister Donald Spargo Allister (born 27 August 1952) is a Church of England bishop. He was the Archdeacon of Chester from 2002 to 2010 and on 5 November 2009 was nominated as the next Bishop of Peterborough. He was installed on 17 April 2010. Allister served in parish positions in Hyde, Greater Manchester; Sevenoaks, Kent; Birkenhead, Merseyside and Cheadle, Greater Manchester. While at Sevenoaks he also served as a consultant editor of the ""Church of England Newspaper"" and in Birkenhead he was also a part-time hospital chaplain. He has been a member of the General Synod of the Church"
"much larger than Aylmer, hung the body in a cloak on the hat-stand, putting a hat over the head to cover it up. Then he put on the victim's nightgown in order to pretend to be Aylmer, and went down to meet Brown. The Incredulity of Father Brown The Incredulity of Father Brown is a collection of eight stories by G. K. Chesterton, the third-published collection featuring the fictional detective Father Brown. It was first published as a book in 1926 by Cassell of London, whose monthly ""Cassell's Magazine"" featured the last of the eight stories in its April number,"