The Innocence of Father Brown
The Blue Cross: Aristide Valentin, the head of the Paris police, follows a track of strange happenings, which leads him straight to the arch-criminal Flambeau, led by a small unassuming clergyman with the name of Father Brown.
The Secret Garden: In Aristide Valentin's garden, his guests find the body of a beheaded man. Where did the man come from? And where's multi-millionaire Julius K. Brayne?
The Queer Feet: If you meet a member of that select club, “The Twelve True Fishermen,” entering the Vernon Hotel for the annual club dinner, you will observe, as he takes off his overcoat, that his evening coat is green and not black. If you ask him why, he will probably answer that he does it to avoid being mistaken for a waiter. And behind that statement is a mystery.
The Flying Stars: A Harlequin in a spangled suit, a policeman on stage, a Socialist and missing diamonds are the highlight of a Christmas party in a middle-class house. But what was to be smooth sailing for Flambeau is given the brakes by a small, insignificant priest.
The Invisible Man: A girl is courted by two men, neither of whom she wants. But things get serious when the first man is murdered, and there's no trace of the murderer. Did he come and go, invisibly?
The Honour of Israel Gow: "By no stretch of fancy can the human mind connect together snuff and diamonds and wax and loose clockwork,” said Flambeau. But Father Brown did, and at the end of this odd link of items, found what he did not expect, an honest man.
The Wrong Shape: Leonard Quinton is found dead, leaving a note saying, "“I die by my own hand; yet I die murdered!”
The Sins of Prince Saradine: Prince Saradine's sins seemed to have come home to roost when Antonelli, the son of the man he had murdered years ago, turns up seeking revenge. But things are not as they seem.
The Hammer of God: Colonel Norman Bohun is struck down by a hammer, his head crushed, evidently by the blacksmith, whose wife he was meeting on the sly. But Father Brown's puzzled - why did the blacksmith use the smallest hammer?
The Eye of Apollo: Pauline Stacey falls to her death through an open lift. She leaves behind what is supposed to be a will leaving all her money to the self-proclaimed pontiff of Apollo, Kalon. But the will is incomplete. Father Brown finds the solution of the mystery in Pauline's eyes.
The Sign of the Broken Sword: Father Brown asked, “Where does a wise man hide a pebble?” And Flambeau answered in a low voice: “On the beach.” “Where does a wise man hide a leaf?” “In the forest.” And this logic goes deeper into pure evil as they investigate the death of Major Murray.
The Three Tools of Death: Father Brown investigates the death of the ever-cheerful Sir Aaron Armstrong. But there are too many weapons - "the knife to stab, the rope to strangle, and the pistol to shoot; and after all, he broke his neck by falling out of a window".
