Published between 1910 and 1935, the Father Brown saga is probably Chesterton's most beloved and personal work. If the detective story is the earliest expression of the poetics of modern life and the city, who better—Chesterton proposes, in one of his brilliant paradoxes—than a humble old-guard priest to decipher it? Thus emerges one of the most endearing literary characters. Armed with little more than an umbrella and the profound knowledge of humanity acquired in the confessional, the plump and absent-minded priest from Essex—for whom discrediting reason is bad theology—unravels crimes and mysteries in which the truth eludes both cold deduction and credulous paranormal explanation. This edition brings together the five books published by Chesterton and includes some of Father Brown's stories recently recovered and never before published in Spanish.