The Wisdom Of Father Brown is a collection of twelve stories starring the priest Father Brown, and his friend Inspector Flambeau. Stories include; The Absence Of Mr Glass; The Paradise Of Thieves; The Duel Of Dr Hirsch; The Man In The Passage; The Mistake Of The Machine; The Head Of Caesar; The Purple Wig; The Perishing Of The Pendragons; The God Of The Gongs; The Salad Of Colonel Cray; The Strange Crime Of John Boulnois; and, The Fairy Tale Of Father Brown. Unlike the more famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown's methods tend to be intuitive rather than deductive.