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Father Brown

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Father Brown	comment	Father Brown is a detective series created by G. K. Chesterton. The protagonist is actually called Father J. Brown, though we are never told what the initial stands for, and is originally presented as the Roman Catholic parish priest of Cobhole in Essex, though he is found in parishes as far afield as Italy and South America. In appearance he is undistinguished, small and dumpy, short-sighted and doesn't look particularly intelligent; dressed in shabby clerical black, and carrying an umbrella as dumpy and shabby as himself.The Father Brown mysteries generally appeared first as independent short stories in various magazines; (most of) the stories were eventually collected in a series of five books: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926) The Secret of Father Brown (1927), and The Scandal of Father Brown (1935).Three stories, "The Donnington Affair" (1914) (GKC writing the solution of a mystery set up by Max Pemberton), "The Vampire of the Village" (1936), and "The Mask of Midas" (1936), were published separately, though the second of these was later included in editions of Scandal.In 1934 a film version of Chesterton's priest based on "The Blue Cross"' appeared with the title Father Brown, Detective, with Walter Connelly in the title rÃ´le. In 1954 Father Brown (U.S. title, The Detective) appeared with Alec Guinness as the eponymous priest. Heinz RÃ¼hmann played Father Brown in two German adaptations of Chesterton's stories, Das schwarze Schaf ("The Black Sheep") (1960) and Er kann's nicht lassen ("He Can't Stop Doing It") (1962). (The score to these, by Martin BÃ¶ttcher, became very popular in Germany.) In 1970 an Italian television series entitled I racconti di padre Brown ("The Tales of Father Brown") starred the well-known Italian comedian Renato Rascel. In 1974, Kenneth More starred in a 13-episode Father Brown TV series, each episode dramatised from one of Chesterton's short stories, and generally considered the most faithful adaptation. In 1979, the TV move Sanctuary of Fear featured an American Father Brown (Barnard Hughes) sleuthing in contemporary New York City.. but the protagonist's only resemblances to Chesterton's character are his name and occupation. Andrew Sachs (of Fawlty Towers fame) played the character on BBC Radio from 1984 to 1986. A German television series, Pfarrer Braun ("Pastor Brown"), loosely based on the Chesterton character, is in production since 2003; its title theme by Martin BÃ¶ttcher is a Shout-Out to the one of the Heinz RÃ¼hmann films. A 2013 TV series produced by the BBC cast Mark Williams of The Fast Show and Harry Potter fame in the title role. The trope page for that show can be found here.
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Father Brown / int_100b0199	type	The Wicked Stage
Father Brown / int_100b0199	comment	The Wicked Stage: In one of the stories, Father Brown realizes that an alleged High Church Anglican is a fake when his poses are inconsistent; for instance, he's severe about acting, which is rather more Low Church.
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Father Brown / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Father Brown / int_101500e	comment	Beneath Notice: In "The Invisible Man," a man is murdered and witnesses say they saw nobody. Father Brown figures out that the murderer was a postman, and the witnesses didn't pay any attention to him. In "The Queer Feet", which Flambeau infiltrates a high-class party in black tie. When he's at the table, he behaves like a waiter (causing the guests to pay no attention to him), but when he's away from the table, he instead behaves like a guest (so the waiters, who are familiar with each other, don't find him out).
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Father Brown / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
Father Brown / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: Father Brown describes the criminal in "The Oracle of the Dog" as this: he was desperate for money to clear his gambling debts, but he didn't know if the money would come to him, and it didn't. Rather than commit a honest murder of a rich relative he saw it as a risk a real gambler should try to win.
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Father Brown / int_11c754d8	type	Trail of Bread Crumbs
Father Brown / int_11c754d8	comment	Trail of Bread Crumbs: Well, a trail of weird little pranks and vandalisms left in the wake of two priests in The Blue Cross. The one doing them wants to be followed by the police, the other priest isn't a priest...
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Father Brown / int_1300dc5c	type	Inspector Lestrade
Father Brown / int_1300dc5c	comment	Having read "The Blue Cross", the reader would be justified in thinking that Valentin would act as Father Brown's Inspector Lestrade Friend on the Force, with Flambeau as the Moriarty of the series. However, "The Secret Garden" has Valentin Driven to Suicide after a Faceâ€“Heel Turn.
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Father Brown / int_13dc1beb	type	Serial Killings, Specific Target
Father Brown / int_13dc1beb	comment	Serial Killings, Specific Target: One of the earliest examples (though the disguise is an intentionally provoked military battle rather than a serial killing) is "The Sign of the Broken Sword" (1911). In Father Brown's own words:
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Father Brown / int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
Father Brown / int_1520ad7e	comment	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Detective Valentin. In his first appearance, in "The Blue Cross", he's an atheist but comes to respect Father Brown's intellect. The story appears to set him up to be The Watson in future stories. In his second appearance, in "The Secret Garden", he's the murderer: his raging atheism makes him kill to prevent a large donation to the Church. And he commits suicide, rather than submitting to arrest.
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Father Brown / int_1888979e	type	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist
Father Brown / int_1888979e	comment	Subverted with Valentin, who bows to Father Brown's intellect in "The Blue Cross", but then goes full-on Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist and then takes his own life in "The Secret Garden".
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Father Brown / int_1b4c7abb	type	Ambivalent Anglican
Father Brown / int_1b4c7abb	comment	Ambivalent Anglican: In "The Vampire of the Village", one retired village priest seems to be all over the place with regard to his beliefs. Father Brown (a Catholic priest) soon realizes that's because the man isn't actually a priest but an actor playing different stereotypes of priests as they'd appear on stage (The Vicar, the "Stop Having Fun" Guy, the Holier Than Thou type, etc.). Father Brown realises that the alleged vicar is an imposter because he shows elements of entirely incompatible factions of the Church of England, such as having an ornate crucifix in his study (Anglo-Catholic) while describing himself as a capital-P Puritan (very Low Church, to the point of possibly being too protestant to be in the C of E at all). Brown comments that "the English know nothing about the Church of England". Not coincidentally, G K Chesterton was a Roman Catholic who had his own reasons for mocking the C of E.
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Father Brown / int_1c751b35	type	The Vicar
Father Brown / int_1c751b35	comment	The Vicar: Invoked in-story by an impostor in "The Vampire of the Village". Only the Catholic Father Brown sees through him, since "the English know nothing about the Church of England."
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Father Brown / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Father Brown / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Very common, helping to spread round the motive for murder, as in "The Man in the Passage."
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Father Brown / int_1d8fc71f	type	Deadly Book
Father Brown / int_1d8fc71f	comment	Deadly Book: "The Blast Of The Book" revolves around a book that is reported to drive anyone who reads even a few words of it to self-destruction.
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Father Brown / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Father Brown / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Invoked in "The Dagger With Wings."
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Father Brown / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
Father Brown / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: Flambeau is an example. Deconstructed in "The Flying Stars", in which Father Brown points out that he has left an innocent person to be blamed for the crime he committed, and persuades him that it's impossible to remain a honourable outlaw without Slowly Slipping Into Evil.
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Father Brown / int_21ef4ccd	type	Good Is Not Dumb
Father Brown / int_21ef4ccd	comment	Good Is Not Dumb: Regularly invoked by Father Brown himself.
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Father Brown / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Father Brown / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Naturally, as he is a priest.
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Father Brown / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Father Brown / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: "The Eye of Apollo," which begins with Father Brown confronting Kalon before the reader even knows a murder has happened.
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Father Brown / int_253c1204	type	Obfuscating Postmortem Wounds
Father Brown / int_253c1204	comment	Obfuscating Postmortem Wounds: In "The Secret Garden", a beheaded body is further desecrated by several strange cuts about the severed neck. As Father Brown explains in the end, "It was done to make you take for granted that the head belonged to the body." In "The Insoluble Problem", Tyrone's accomplices both hang and stab an already-dead body (the man had actually died of old age) as part of a scheme to create a false crime complex and confusing enough to keep Flambeau and Father Brown busy while Tyrone pulls off a jewel theft.
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Father Brown / int_264fcc42	type	Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome
Father Brown / int_264fcc42	comment	Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: Aristide Valentin in "The Secret Garden".
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Father Brown / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Father Brown / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Pfarrer Braun.
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Father Brown / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Father Brown / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Father Brown describes the criminal in "The Actor and the Alibi" as this: she was an ambitious actress who murdered her dull old-fashioned husband so that she could be free of him and seek a better career with a handsome uprising actor.
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Father Brown / int_2d717e11	type	Suicide, Not Murder
Father Brown / int_2d717e11	comment	Suicide, Not Murder: Chesterton was most probably a Trope Maker. The solution of "The Three Tools of Death". Unusually for this trope, the appearance of murder was entirely by chance and not by any malicious intent on anybody's part. Used again in "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois", although in that case the suicidal person was intentionally trying to frame someone else.
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Father Brown / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Father Brown / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: "The Man in the Passage". The mysterious figure glimpsed in the passage at the time of the murder was the witness's own reflection.
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Father Brown / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Father Brown / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Defied in The Flying Stars; Father Brown gives a lengthy lecture to Flambeau after he leaves an innocent patsy to take the fall for his latest theft, insisting that it's only a matter of time before the latter descends into worse and worse villainy. Father Brown's lurid description of "honest" criminals who eventually became deadbeats and madmen apparently scares Flambeau straight, as thereafter he has completely given up his criminal ways. A general theme of the stories is that the true distinction between criminals is not the nature of their crime, but rather their willingness to repent. Moveover, the assumption that some crimes are better than others quickly leads to hypocrisy, or worse, Slowly Slipping Into Evil.
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Father Brown / int_323fd510	type	Everyone Is a Suspect
Father Brown / int_323fd510	comment	Everyone Is a Suspect: "The Arrow of Heaven" is a good example.
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Father Brown / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
Father Brown / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Sir Arthur Vaudrey, from "The Vanishing of Vaudrey", works on this. An Egyptian official in his hearing compared Englishmen with pigs; years later when the official came to England on a visit, Vaudrey broke his arm and leg and threw him into a pigsty for a night. When his fiancÃ© heard about it, she broke off their engagement; he planned to set her up with John Dalmon, a man who had committed a murder years back, and then have him arrested and executed for the crime. He was murdered by Dalmon before the marriage could take effect.
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Father Brown / int_34f1b472	type	Mad Artist
Father Brown / int_34f1b472	comment	Mad Artist: Played seriously in "The Actor and the Alibi", where an actress murders her stage manager husband and makes off with a young actor for fame and glory, and deconstructed in â€œThe Mirror of the Magistrateâ€� where an artistâ€™s eccentric behaviour makes him a suspect in a murder.
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Father Brown / int_351e7cf9	type	Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
Father Brown / int_351e7cf9	comment	Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: While on the whole Father Brown is Team Enlightenment and is able to see through superstitions and supernatural hoaxes, these stories were set at the turn of the 20th century, in itself considered a romantic and idealistic time. One story, "The Scandal of Father Brown", deconstructs the romantic tale of a love triangle with Father Brown pointing out that too much glamorizing of sin blurs morality.
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Father Brown / int_3df7b43b	type	Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat
Father Brown / int_3df7b43b	comment	Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat: In "The Absence of Mr. Glass," the hat found at the scene of the crime turns out to be a conjurer's prop rather than something to wear.
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Father Brown / int_3e95582f	type	The Greatest Story Never Told
Father Brown / int_3e95582f	comment	The Greatest Story Never Told: In "The Sign of the Broken Sword".
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Father Brown / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
Father Brown / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Subverted in "The Absence of Mr Glass", in which some characters involve a brilliant criminologist in a domestic case, where he concludes with a sinister and dramatic interpretation of some facts. Dramatic and totally false. The apparent killer is only a stage magician, so that the cards, the knives, the swords and the mysteriously large top hat have a very simple explanation. At the end of the tale, everyone (including the criminologist) is laughing. In "The Honour of Israel Gow", the Father is asked to perform a scan on an odd set of trinkets left behind on the scene and produces six equally plausible but all mutually contradictory stories explaining their presence — none of which turns out to be correct.
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Father Brown / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Father Brown / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Pauline Stacey's refusal to acknowledge her vision loss and commitment to Kalon's Church of Apollo, which has a rite of staring directly into the sun, causes her to go blind.
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Father Brown / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Father Brown / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: Used in several stories, notably "The Invisible Man."
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Father Brown / int_433cee4c	type	Tricked to Death
Father Brown / int_433cee4c	comment	Tricked to Death: Used to perform a nearly perfect murder. The murderer simply informs his (blind) lover that he is holding the elevator for her, then heads up a floor (the elevators are essentially silent), heads out onto his balcony where several hundred people can testify to his location, and waits for the lover to run into the now-empty elevator shaft.
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Father Brown / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Father Brown / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Done in "The Man in the Passage". An actress keeping her marriage secret is a common practice, but she attracted so many unknowing suitors for her hand in marriage that her husband finally cracked and killed her in a fit of jealousy. Made worse by the fact that the victim had sent for Father Brown precisely to help with their marital problems; the priest laments that he was barely too late to save her life.
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Father Brown / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Father Brown / int_469e3e2f	comment	Discussed in-universe in "The Sign of the Broken Sword". Being a greedy and corrupted traitor? Not okay. Killing the one who found out about that? Real bad. Leading the whole regiment in a pointlessly suicidal attack so that the deceased would be lost in a field of corpses? There we go.
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Father Brown / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Father Brown / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Done remarkably subtly in "The Green Man". The victim, a seaman returning from the long-distance sea travel, was found dead in a pool. However, when the murderer was told that the victim had drowned, he immediately asked where the body was found — though the logical conclusion would be that the seaman had drowned at sea and thus his body was never recovered.
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Father Brown / int_4ae13674	type	To Know Him, I Must Become Him
Father Brown / int_4ae13674	comment	To Know Him, I Must Become Him: Father Brown explains that this is his method for crime-solving in The Secret of Father Brown. (See also That's What I Would Do.)
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Father Brown / int_4b17763f	type	Technology Marches On
Father Brown / int_4b17763f	comment	Technology Marches On: One of the last Father Brown stories, "The Insoluble Problem", has Brown make a blunder because he couldn't recognize someone's voice on a phone. He prefers speaking directly to people rather than through a machine.
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Father Brown / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
Father Brown / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Almost all the stories seems to invoke supernatural elements, only for Father Brown to discover that they have perfectly mundane solutions, see Belief Makes You Stupid and If Jesus, Then Aliens.
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Father Brown / int_4e1223a7	type	Preemptive Apology
Father Brown / int_4e1223a7	comment	Preemptive Apology: Used by Father Brown in "The Blue Cross".
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Father Brown / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Father Brown / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In "The Blue Cross", Valentin believes he has gone on a wild goose chase after two harmless, theology-debating clerics and is ready to creep away, when one of them says: In the third story, "Queer Feet". "I'm a priest, Monsieur Flambeau, and I'm ready to hear your confession." In "The Chief Mourner of Marne": "It isn't Jim at all. It's Maurice!" The Eye of Apollo: "Pauline Stacy was blind."
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Father Brown / int_4f3c14ca	type	Go Mad from the Isolation
Father Brown / int_4f3c14ca	comment	Go Mad from the Isolation: What happened to Wilfred Bohun in "The Hammer of God".
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Father Brown / int_5017da77	type	Church of Saint Genericus
Father Brown / int_5017da77	comment	Church of Saint Genericus: Subverted in "The Vampire of the Village", in which Father Brown realises that a purported clergyman is a fake because he shows characteristics of multiple incompatible Christian denominations.
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Father Brown / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Father Brown / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Sir Arthur Vaudrey was fond of this, which is what got him killed in "The Vanishing of Vaudrey".
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Father Brown / int_52ae74d	type	Undercover Cop Reveal
Father Brown / int_52ae74d	comment	Undercover Cop Reveal: Plays a major part in "The Man With Two Beards" and "The Donnington Affair".
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Father Brown / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Father Brown / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: One collection has the first story, "The Secret of Father Brown" and the last story, "The Secret of Flambeau", as two halves of the same story.
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Father Brown / int_559db5c1	type	TheUriahGambit
Father Brown / int_559db5c1	comment	The Uriah Gambit: In "The Sign of the Broken Sword." Also a more unconventional version in "The Fairy Tale Of Father Brown". The greedy and paranoid Evil Overlord sneaks away in the dead of night to visit a local monk whom he suspects knows the location of a gold mine. The monk, who is the last of three brothers who led a successful resistance for some time, jumps the Evil Overlord and gags him with his own military sash, causing said Overlord to be shot by his own troops when he can't answer the challenge.
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Father Brown / int_58e83efd	type	Disease by Any Other Name
Father Brown / int_58e83efd	comment	Disease by Any Other Name: The title character in "The Honour of Israel Gow" — he is described within the story by other characters as of limited intellect, but what we see of him suggests that his intelligence is pretty normal, and his intense, if eccentric, sense of honesty, literal-mindedness, and taciturnity suggest to a modern reader that he's autistic in some way.
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Father Brown / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Father Brown / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: A police detective complains about this trope in one story. He points out that while the police may not be as intuitively brilliant as the average fictional detective, they are not even shown as having the virtues they do have such as storing and sharing information.
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Father Brown / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Father Brown / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Being a preacher, Father Brown has a trick of projecting his voice at crucial moments — such as in "The Dagger with Wings", when he wants to be heard by the police he knows have the house surrounded.
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Father Brown / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Father Brown / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Not a positive example. He observed Father Brown helping a woman run from an ugly man with a handsome one and, assuming it's a typical Ugly Guy, Hot Wife scenario, immediately sent a story about how a priest broke a sacred marriage, ruining his reputation. The ugly one was the lover.
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Father Brown / int_5fb5dad8	type	Royal Blood
Father Brown / int_5fb5dad8	comment	Royal Blood: In "The Sins of Prince Saradine."
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Father Brown / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Father Brown / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Joan Stacey in "The Eye of Apollo" is this to Kalon's scheme to kill her older sister Pauline for her inheritance. Pauline was blind, and Joan filled her fountain pens with ink for her. However, she left a pen un-filled for Pauline to write her will (which would have left everything to Kalon) with. The pen ran out before the will could be finished, meaning that Kalon got nothing.
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Father Brown / int_6068c76b	type	Clock Punk
Father Brown / int_6068c76b	comment	Clock Punk: In "The Invisible Man", one character is an inventor who's made millions from home automation - in the form of human-sized clockwork robots.
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Father Brown / int_60cc14ba	type	Ruritania
Father Brown / int_60cc14ba	comment	Ruritania: In "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown" there is the Teutonic "city and state of Heiligwaldenstein."
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Father Brown / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Father Brown / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Flambeau, thief, repents and becomes a private detective.
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Father Brown / int_628d08d4	type	Silver Bullet
Father Brown / int_628d08d4	comment	Silver Bullet: In "The Dagger With Wings".
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Father Brown / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Father Brown / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Provides a blind in "The Oracle of the Dog."
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Father Brown / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Father Brown / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: One of the bases of Mystery Fiction, of course.
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Father Brown / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Father Brown / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Hypatia in The Scandal of Father Brown. Itâ€™s not the first time there is a controversy concerning a man of the Church in connection with a lady named Hypatia. Ironically, the same story deconstructs the trope, with Father Brown pointing out that handsome businessmen do possess ordinary names.
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Father Brown / int_6c0cefcd	type	Pepper Sneeze
Father Brown / int_6c0cefcd	comment	Pepper Sneeze: In "The Salad of Colonel Cray": A key clue to the mystery is some unexplained sneezes heard near the scene of the crime. It is eventually explained that the criminal sneezed when throwing away to the dustbin the condiment rack (containing, among other things, a pepper pot) that could have been used to counter the action of the poison he was planning to use. Also the explanation for why the assailant sneezed when shot at. The pepper pot in his pocket stopped the bullet.
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Father Brown / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Father Brown / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The murderer commits suicide rather than submit to arrest in "The Secret Garden": "...and on the blind face of the suicide was more than the pride of Cato." note Quoth Martin Gardiner in his annotated edition of the Father Brown stories, "The pride that Chesterton considers greater than Cato's is, of course, that of Satan." It happens in a lot of Father Brown stories actually, when a murderer is exposed.
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Father Brown / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Father Brown / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: In one story, the murderer almost gets away by putting on a bathrobe and pretending to be the man Father Brown was trying to find. In another, the murderer pretends to be his victim, blatantly displays his victim's corpse (disguised as someone else's), fakes 'his' suicide, and gets away. In yet another, someone in a duel pretends to die, later shoots his antagonist, and to avoid detection pretends to be that antagonist, shutting himself away out of guilt.
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Father Brown / int_6d7fb55	type	Fake Brit
Father Brown / int_6d7fb55	comment	Fake Brit: In-universe, Kalon in "The Eye of Apollo".
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Father Brown / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Father Brown / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Flambeau and his Spanish Lady produced a large and very domestic brood of children.
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Father Brown / int_7175cb16	type	Clark Kenting
Father Brown / int_7175cb16	comment	Clark Kenting: Done in "The Duel of Dr Hirsch". While the trick fools almost everyone, Father Brown sees through it because it's done too well: two opposing personas, one who refused to see the other, had to be part of a masquerade. In The Queer Feet, the criminal goes from being seen as a hotel guest to a hotel waiter by changing only his posture and mannerisms.
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Father Brown / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Father Brown / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: A character with red hair is almost always Good in Chesterton. Less frequently, blond hair is evil — especially if the blondness looks somehow artificial ("gilded").
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Father Brown / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
Father Brown / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Subverted with Valentin, who bows to Father Brown's intellect in "The Blue Cross", but then goes full-on Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist and then takes his own life in "The Secret Garden". Played straight with Flambeau in many later stories.
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Father Brown / int_73dd919c	type	Genteel Interbellum Setting
Father Brown / int_73dd919c	comment	Genteel Interbellum Setting: Reasonably enough, as all of the stories were written between 1910 and 1936.
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Father Brown / int_7833feeb	type	Sudden Name Change
Father Brown / int_7833feeb	comment	Sudden Name Change: Father Brown himself. "The Eye of Apollo" gives his name as "the Reverend J. Brown", whilst "The Sign of the Broken Sword" refers to him as Paul.
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Father Brown / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
Father Brown / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Played straight in "The Sins of Prince Saradine" and "The Chief Mourner of Marne". Invoked in "The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," but doesn't happen, since it was just a publicity scheme.
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Father Brown / int_79b5677	type	Belief Makes You Stupid
Father Brown / int_79b5677	comment	Belief Makes You Stupid: Taken down with extreme prejudice in Father Brown's very first story, "The Blue Cross". From the same story: "Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?" On a couple of occasions, Father Brown essentially states that he knows a certain mysterious occurrence was not Black Magic because he knows what Black Magic looks like and [whatever mysterious occurrence they're discussing] does not fit the signs. According to Father Brown ("The Miracle of Moon Crescent"), it's not belief that makes you stupid but not knowing what and why you actually believe in... ...or, to put it more concisely and up to inverting the trope, as Father Brown does in "The Oracle of the Dog",
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Father Brown / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
Father Brown / int_79ba6777	comment	Also the explanation for why the assailant sneezed when shot at. The pepper pot in his pocket stopped the bullet.
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Father Brown / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
Father Brown / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: In "The Doom of the Darnaways", the Darnaways are an aristocratic family of ancient lineage reduced to living in the still-habitable portions of a half-ruined house.
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Father Brown / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
Father Brown / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Alluded to in "The Oracle of the Dog" — "With your Citizen Riquetti you have puzzled Europe for ten days." Father Brown is referring to the infamous HonorÃ© Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau, who abandoned his noble titles to become a leader in the French Revolution (thus became just plain Citizen Riqueti). He's alluding to the fact that one of the characters involved in the mystery is a French nobleman who abandoned his title and is just using his ordinary surname
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Father Brown / int_7aed96a9	type	White Magic
Father Brown / int_7aed96a9	comment	White Magic: Invoked, and debunked, in "The Dagger with Wings" — and re-invoked.
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Father Brown / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Father Brown / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: "The Secret Garden".
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Father Brown / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Father Brown / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: The story "The Sign of the Broken Sword"
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Father Brown / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Father Brown / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Never let it be said that the clergy donâ€™t have a sense of humor. Father Brown finds the crimes of â€œThe Strange Crime of John Boulnoisâ€� and â€œThe Absence of Mr Glassâ€� worthy of a good laugh, as they were just harmless pranks. Similarly, Professor Openshaw is able to see the funny side of "The Blast of the Book".
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Father Brown / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Father Brown / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The prosecutor in "The Mirror of the Magistrate". Father Brown lampshades that being a murderer, he has good reason to rant about executing an innocent man.
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Father Brown / int_8279486b	type	Sherlock Homage
Father Brown / int_8279486b	comment	Sherlock Homage: Dr Hood in "The Absence of Mr. Glass" is a hyper-rational criminologist in the Sherlock Holmes mould, to the extent that the BBC radio adaptation makes him a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of Holmes himself.
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Father Brown / int_838343d6	type	Fairy Tale
Father Brown / int_838343d6	comment	Fairy Tale: As in "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown."
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Father Brown / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Father Brown / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Aaron Armstrong being this is the whole point of "Three Tools of Death". Discussed In-Universe by Father Brown: "Why couldn't they let him weep a little, like his fathers before him? His plans stiffened, his views grew cold; behind that merry mask was the empty mind of the atheist." He committed suicide.
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Father Brown / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Father Brown / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: In "The Absence of Mr. Glass", Dr Hood's original suggestion (based purely on his theories of racial characteristics) is that Mrs McNab is imagining a sinister explanation of what's probably quite a simple event. He's actually right, though not for any reason to do with Mrs McNab's race. Amusingly, when he actually gets to the crime scene, he promptly comes up with a sinister (and incorrect) explanation of his own.
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Father Brown / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
Father Brown / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: "The Blue Cross" introduces Valentin, the head of the French police who is The Ace, and Flambeau, an arch-criminal, with Father Brown coming in, and being revealed as the actual hero, toward the end. Of course, nowadays, since the story is found in anthologies titled The Innocence of Father Brown and The Father Brown Omnibus, and not The Valentin Omnibus, the actual protagonist's identity is a Late-Arrival Spoiler. Having read "The Blue Cross", the reader would be justified in thinking that Valentin would act as Father Brown's Inspector Lestrade Friend on the Force, with Flambeau as the Moriarty of the series. However, "The Secret Garden" has Valentin Driven to Suicide after a Faceâ€“Heel Turn. With a Heelâ€“Face Turn during "The Flying Stars", and beginning with "The Invisible Man, Flambeau turns from an arch-criminal to play the Watson to Father Brown's Holmes.
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Father Brown / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Father Brown / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: Invoked in "The Sins of Prince Saradine"
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Father Brown / int_886e0897	type	Cain and Abel
Father Brown / int_886e0897	comment	Cainand Abel: Used in "The Hammer of God" and "The Sins of Prince Seradine", and a sister version in "The Eye of Apollo". In the first two cases it's the overly antagonistic sibling that's killed by the quieter but more vindictive sibling; the third case downplays it as while the quiet sister is involved, all she did was to trick the victim out of writing a will that would've left everything to the murderer.
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Father Brown / int_88f16cee	type	Go Out with a Smile
Father Brown / int_88f16cee	comment	Go Out with a Smile: "The Vanishing of Vaudrey" has Sir Arthur Vaudrey found with his throat cut, and a pleasant smile on his face. Justified as he was killed in a barbershop, a place where a razor can be wielded with full trust, and he was unawares at the time of it happening.
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Father Brown / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Father Brown / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: The rhyme "As sap to the simmer trees/Is red gold to the Ogilvies" didn't just mean that the Ogilvies were misers. It also meant that they had an obsession with hoarding literal, elemental, gold.
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Father Brown / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
Father Brown / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: In "The Doom of the Darnaways", the newly-discovered Darnaway heir bears such a striking resemblance to an old portrait that another character suspects he's deliberately modeled his appearance on it. Father Brown suspects a much simpler explanation — it's the portrait that has been made to resemble the man.
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Father Brown / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
Father Brown / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Is very often Father Brown's goal for the criminals he detects. He also claims that it is the source of his uncanny insight into the criminal mind:
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Father Brown / int_97a383e7	type	Interdisciplinary Sleuth
Father Brown / int_97a383e7	comment	Interdisciplinary Sleuth: Father Brown is, as the name would imply, a priest as well as a detective.
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Father Brown / int_9834561e	type	Inspiring Sermon
Father Brown / int_9834561e	comment	Inspiring Sermon: In "The Flying Stars", Father Brown delivers a sermon to Flambeau, deconstructing the latter's Lovable Rogue image of himself and warning him about the inevitable danger of Slowly Slipping Into Evil. After that sermon, Flambeau (a hardened and very intelligent criminal who had evaded capture for years) makes a Heelâ€“Face Turn and becomes Father Brown's best friend.
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Father Brown / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Father Brown / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Father Brown, appropriately for a priest, has a deep sense of agape, spiritual love for all people. He recognizes human monsters when he sees them, but even more so, he recognizes people's capacity for goodness and redemption.
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Father Brown / int_9ad6ea63	type	Depth Deception
Father Brown / int_9ad6ea63	comment	Depth Deception: Referenced in "The Song of the Flying Fish."
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Father Brown / int_9b2c3dc1	type	Evil Is Petty
Father Brown / int_9b2c3dc1	comment	Evilis Petty: Father Brown considers that most criminals and villains apply to this, as all their desires are on their own gain (robberies, vendettas). Brown never really encountered any real high-minded antagonists in his history. the closest was Kalon in the Eye of Apollo and even then he was proven to be a conman.
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Father Brown / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
Father Brown / int_9e2c893	comment	There is exactly one case where this gets played straight: In "The Honor of Israel Gow", Father Brown sees that a collection of sacred documents have been defaced in a very specific and ritualistic fashion (every time the name of God or a saint's halo appears, it has been cut away while leaving everything else intact), and diagnoses Black Magic. In fact, the explanation turns out to have been the titular character's Literal-Minded nature (He interpreted the will leaving him "all the gold of the Ogilvies" as "every scrap of gold in the house, including the gold leaf used for haloes and the name of God in the old manuscripts, and absolutely nothing else.)
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Father Brown / int_a036d3df	type	Sarcastic Confession
Father Brown / int_a036d3df	comment	Sarcastic Confession: As in "The Worst Crime in the World."
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Father Brown / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Father Brown / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up
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Father Brown / int_a2e84479	type	Slowly Slipping Into Evil
Father Brown / int_a2e84479	comment	Slowly Slipping Into Evil: In "The Flying Stars," when Father Brown gets a moment alone with the criminal, the priest explains that in his experience, "Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down." (The full monologue is on the trope's Quote page).
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Father Brown / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
Father Brown / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: "The Actor and the Alibi". Used in a much lighter fashion in "The Blast of the Book".
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Father Brown / int_a6a6de9a	type	Humble Hero
Father Brown / int_a6a6de9a	comment	Humble Hero: Father Brown, as seen in "The Resurrection of Father Brown": he realized his death/revival was part of a fantasy scam and was quick to expose it, when any fairly normal person would have been swayed by the glory and profit of such a venture.
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Father Brown / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Father Brown / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: An unusual variation: Father Brown lets criminals go off rather easily, even though some have done terrible deeds. He leaves justice to Heaven rather than human law, and believes that sinners can never be really happy with their deeds and deserve to be saved rather than punished.
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Father Brown / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Father Brown / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: it is only with "The Secret of Father Brown" (the short story within the book of the same name) that we learn that Flambeau is just a nome de guerre, with his actual name being Duroc.
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Father Brown / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Father Brown / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Father Brown appears to be a simple, not-too-bright parish priest at first glance, and sometimes plays this up to get criminals to drop their guard around him. "The Blue Cross" has Father Brown travelling with another priest. Among other things, Father Brown throws half a cup of soup at the wall of a restaurant and breaks a window with his umbrella, even leaving an extra bit of money behind to pay for the broken window. He does this so that Valentin hears about these strange events and follows him because noted thief Flambeau is masquerading as a priest walking with him and he wants to make sure the detective took notice.
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Father Brown / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
Father Brown / int_abe4d7b	comment	Blue Blood: Despite GKC's very commonly expressed dislike of aristocratic systems of government, his work abounds in noblemen, both sympathetic and unsympathetic, e.g., in "The Purple Wig." Some of them are even of real aristocratic lineage, too.
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Father Brown / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Father Brown / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Father Brown, though a very kindly one.
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Father Brown / int_ae475b01	type	A True Story in My Universe
Father Brown / int_ae475b01	comment	A True Story in My Universe: It is mentioned in "The Resurrection of Father Brown" that an American journalist Saul Snaith arranged for publishing "a series of stories, like the stories of Sherlock Holmes" about Father Brown; however, it isn't exactly clear if they have anything to do with the actual stories we're reading.
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Father Brown / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Father Brown / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Well, OSHA wasn't actually in the picture, but the lifts in The Eye of Apollo are silent, fast, and have no doors to close when the lift is on another floor. It's really no wonder that an accident occurred. Or rather, a murder — Kalon took advantage of this to lure Pauline Stacy into falling down the elevator shaft.
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Father Brown / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Father Brown / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: At the conclusion of "The Crime of the Communist", Father Brown is scathing about the notion that the man who was framed for the murder might have accidentally revealed the plot by using the poisoned matches that had just been planted on him. Just because he was a Communist who wanted to overthrow Church and State in a bloody revolution, that didn't mean he was so bereft of standards as to start smoking before he'd finished drinking his port!
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Father Brown / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Father Brown / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: A good one for the scientists in "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown":
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Father Brown / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Father Brown / int_b5b4b077	comment	"The Blue Cross" introduces Valentin, the head of the French police who is The Ace, and Flambeau, an arch-criminal, with Father Brown coming in, and being revealed as the actual hero, toward the end. Of course, nowadays, since the story is found in anthologies titled The Innocence of Father Brown and The Father Brown Omnibus, and not The Valentin Omnibus, the actual protagonist's identity is a Late-Arrival Spoiler.
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Father Brown / int_b6ca8bd	type	If Jesus, Then Aliens
Father Brown / int_b6ca8bd	comment	If Jesus, Then Aliens: Defied. Father Brown is quite devout, but doesn't believe in anything supernatural at first sight, and is very quick to correct those who attempt to use this logic themselves. Multiple mysteries are mistaken for miracles, curses or what have you, and Brown is usually there to prove that they are quite mundane and staged to look supernatural. As he said in "The Miracle of Moon Crescent", There is exactly one case where this gets played straight: In "The Honor of Israel Gow", Father Brown sees that a collection of sacred documents have been defaced in a very specific and ritualistic fashion (every time the name of God or a saint's halo appears, it has been cut away while leaving everything else intact), and diagnoses Black Magic. In fact, the explanation turns out to have been the titular character's Literal-Minded nature (He interpreted the will leaving him "all the gold of the Ogilvies" as "every scrap of gold in the house, including the gold leaf used for haloes and the name of God in the old manuscripts, and absolutely nothing else.)
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Father Brown / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
Father Brown / int_b8dde2	comment	Also a more unconventional version in "The Fairy Tale Of Father Brown". The greedy and paranoid Evil Overlord sneaks away in the dead of night to visit a local monk whom he suspects knows the location of a gold mine. The monk, who is the last of three brothers who led a successful resistance for some time, jumps the Evil Overlord and gags him with his own military sash, causing said Overlord to be shot by his own troops when he can't answer the challenge.
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Father Brown / int_baeb2d6f	type	Glass-Shattering Sound
Father Brown / int_baeb2d6f	comment	Glass-Shattering Sound: Suggested as a solution to the mystery in "The Flying Fish".
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Father Brown / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Father Brown / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Father Brown has an almost saintly level of patience when it comes to just about any character flaw. However, even he has buttons that ought not be pressed. A major button is hypocrisy - in The Arrow of Heaven and The Chief Mourner of Marne, he gives an impassioned "Reason You Suck" Speech to two different groups of people for following double standards: in one story a murderer was approved and then considered to be let off, and in the other story a murderer was forgiven and later on condemned and reviled.
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Father Brown / int_bcb4f1f1	type	You Just Told Me
Father Brown / int_bcb4f1f1	comment	You Just Told Me: In "The Arrow of Heaven", Father Brown talks to three people and gets them to explain how they could have committed a murder. He uses this to justify their innocence, because had they actually killed someone they'd be wary and tense about revealing their knowledge, even if they could act natural about it. In "The Pursuit of Mr Blue", he encounters Muggleton, a detective who witnessed his own client's murder and disposal. He is deemed as a fool and failure, and alternately his account is seen as false (which makes him a suspect), but Brown defends him, reasoning that such an open account points to his innocence. The story ends with the body found, which vindicates Muggleton and Brown.
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Father Brown / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Father Brown / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Very common in Chesterton — no doubt reflecting his own happy marriage. One example is Flambeau and his wife in The Secret of Father Brown.
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Father Brown / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Father Brown / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Deconstructed in "The Scandal of Father Brown". Played seriously in â€œThe Strange Crime of John Boulnoisâ€� and â€œThe Man in the Passageâ€� (the latter to tragic effect).
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Father Brown / int_c011cd29	type	Path of Inspiration
Father Brown / int_c011cd29	comment	Path of Inspiration: "The Eye of Apollo".
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Father Brown / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Father Brown / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: "The Sign of the Broken Sword":
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Father Brown / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
Father Brown / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: Discussed in-universe in "The Sign of the Broken Sword". Being a greedy and corrupted traitor? Not okay. Killing the one who found out about that? Real bad. Leading the whole regiment in a pointlessly suicidal attack so that the deceased would be lost in a field of corpses? There we go. Deconstructed in "The Chief Mourner of Marne": while the other characters are insisting that a character's crime — Playing Possum in a duel in order to murder his own brother — is absolutely unforgivable, Father Brown reminds them that from a Christian point of view there is no such thing as an unforgivable crime.
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Father Brown / int_c48a0fe6	type	Actually, That's My Assistant
Father Brown / int_c48a0fe6	comment	Actually, That's My Assistant: Invoked in "The Scandal of Father Brown".
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Father Brown / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Father Brown / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: "The Miracle of Moon Crescent" has an industrialist who came across three beggars and divided them up on spontaneous analysis: one became his assistant, one became a clerk and one was put in an institution. They were best friends, and were so offended by this act that they killed him in revenge.
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Father Brown / int_c5caf1e5	type	Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!
Father Brown / int_c5caf1e5	comment	Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: At least, it's not for movie stars on their fifth marriages.
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Father Brown / int_c867e57	type	TheRoaringTwenties
Father Brown / int_c867e57	comment	The Roaring '20s: The stories in Incredulity covering Father Brown's visit to the United States tend this way (with, for instance, several mentions of Prohibition, all of them in the context of it being flouted).
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Father Brown / int_c895f927	type	Criminal Mind Games
Father Brown / int_c895f927	comment	Criminal Mind Games: "The Insoluble Problem". The villain sets up a fake murder laced with contradictory clues to distract the detectives while he carries out a jewel robbery elsewhere.
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Father Brown / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Father Brown / int_c9868780	comment	Deconstructed in "The Chief Mourner of Marne": while the other characters are insisting that a character's crime — Playing Possum in a duel in order to murder his own brother — is absolutely unforgivable, Father Brown reminds them that from a Christian point of view there is no such thing as an unforgivable crime.
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Father Brown / int_c9eb478e	type	Satchel Switcheroo
Father Brown / int_c9eb478e	comment	Satchel Switcheroo: Used twice in "The Blue Cross".
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Father Brown / int_cd33644f	type	Incriminating Indifference
Father Brown / int_cd33644f	comment	Incriminating Indifference: Father Brown invokes this on Flambeau in "The Blue Cross", pointing out that a man generally makes a small scene when he notices a discrepancy, like salt instead of sugar in his coffee. If a man keeps quiet despite the discrepancy, he has some reason to try to keep a low profile.
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Father Brown / int_cd7ef676	type	Seen It All
Father Brown / int_cd7ef676	comment	Seen It All: The vast (even shocking) experience of GKC's friend Father John O'Connor so impressed him that he fictionalized the priest in the form of Father Brown, whose first story, "The Blue Cross," is based upon this trope.
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Father Brown / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Father Brown / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: "The Three Tools of Death". It's actually inverted, as Sir Aaron Armstrong really commits suicide even though everyone thinks it's murder.
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Father Brown / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
Father Brown / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: Father Brown, a reflection of GK Chesterton's Catholic faith, in literary form.
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Father Brown / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Father Brown / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: In "The Honour of Israel Gow", Father Brown is uncharacteristically stumped, until a chance remark by Flambeau shows him what he's overlooked.
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Father Brown / int_d48c0702	type	That's What I Would Do
Father Brown / int_d48c0702	comment	That's What I Would Do: Father Brown states that his insight into human nature enables him to solve mysteries this way, as mentioned in "The Secret of Flambeau"
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Father Brown / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Father Brown / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: As, for instance, in "The Ghost of Gideon Wise."
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Father Brown / int_d6618014	type	Last Request
Father Brown / int_d6618014	comment	Last Request: In the second story, it's because Father Brown got one at a deathbed that he's in the place where he deduces the crime.
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Father Brown / int_d9d864e2	type	Stage Magician
Father Brown / int_d9d864e2	comment	Stage Magician: In "The Absence of Mr Glass".
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Father Brown / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Father Brown / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Aristide Valentin in "The Secret Garden". In the end it turns out he's not only this, but also Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist. Many other examples. Atheists in Father Brown stories tend to be either confused and deluded or utterly amoral. Or both.
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Father Brown / int_db32e308	type	Whodunnit to Me?
Father Brown / int_db32e308	comment	Whodunnit to Me?: In "The Resurrection of Father Brown."
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Father Brown / int_db99b292	type	Mondegreen Gag
Father Brown / int_db99b292	comment	Mondegreen Gag: In "The Absence of Mr. Glass", Mr. Glass does not exist. What Todhunter, a stage magician in training, really said (while practicing juggling) was, "...Two, three—Missed a glass."
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Father Brown / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Father Brown / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Valentin, introduced as the protagonist in the first short story; returns as the protagonist for the second short story, and commits suicide at the end of the same story.
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Father Brown / int_df5b972a	type	Innocent Means Naïve
Father Brown / int_df5b972a	comment	Innocent Means NaÃ¯ve: Subverted in "The Blue Cross", where professional thief Flambeau is shocked he has been outmaneuvered by a parish priest who knows more about crime than he does.
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Father Brown / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
Father Brown / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: Used, probably coincidentally, as Book Ends in the first and last stories. In "The Blue Cross", Flambeau pretends to be a clergyman with the intention of robbing Father Brown of the titular artifact. Father Brown rumbles him because he tries to argue for moral relativism. In the final story, "The Vampire of the Village", Father Brown rumbles The Vicar of an English village as a criminal imposter because his religious and social opinions show an implausible mish-mash of characteristics of different and antagonistic factions of the Anglican Church.
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Father Brown / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Father Brown / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: The probably-autistic title character in "The Honour of Israel Gow". The various bizarre and apparently sinister events of the story turn out to be because of Gow's literal and scrupulously honest interpretation of his equally-eccentric dead employer's dying wish for Gow to inherit all his gold — which Gow interpreted as "every scrap of gold in the house and nothing else".
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Father Brown / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
Father Brown / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Father Brown. Technically all of his training is in theology; he just happens to have a keen insight into the criminal mind thanks to his experience listening to Confession. And a keen insight into his own sinful nature. â€œYou think a crime horrible because you imagine you could,never commit it. I think a crime horrible because I know I could commit it.â€�
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Father Brown / int_e4395e9a	type	Theory Tunnel Vision
Father Brown / int_e4395e9a	comment	Theory Tunnel Vision: Orion Hood in "The Absence of Mr Glass" attempts to explain the case, without meeting any of the people involved, based solely on his theories of racial characteristics. When he actually meets one of them, he decides his previous explanation wasn't correct — again, based entirely on her apparent race.
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Father Brown / int_e4c89b67	type	Attending Your Own Funeral
Father Brown / int_e4c89b67	comment	Attending Your Own Funeral: In "The Resurrection of Father Brown".
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Father Brown / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Father Brown / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: Father Brown is a fairly accurate mouthpiece for Chesterton's views.
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Father Brown / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Father Brown / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Father Brown says what he means and sees, but people have a habit of misinterpreting his words. He notes this happens a lot with him in "The Quick One". In "The Chief Mourner of Marne", Father Brown asks General Outram if he knows more about the history of the Marquis of Marne than he's already said. The General replies "I cannot tell you any more". Father Brown notes that this isn't the same thing, and points out the General would have no patience with a priest who equivocated like that. "The Honour of Israel Gow": The title character was promised "all the gold of Glengyle" castle. As an honest man, he takes everything that's gold but leaves everything that isn't, e.g. he takes the gold snuff boxes because they were supposed to be his, but leaves behind the snuff inside them, because no one said he could take that.
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Father Brown / int_ea0d06f0	type	Bookcase Passage
Father Brown / int_ea0d06f0	comment	Bookcase Passage: The old manor house in "The Doom of the Darnaways" has one, which Father Brown discovers after noticing that the fake books on that shelf all refer to myths and hoaxes. Lampshaded, with him feeling obliged to apologize for the fact that his solution to the mystery features such a clichÃ©.
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Father Brown / int_efe63dcf	type	Creepy Cathedral
Father Brown / int_efe63dcf	comment	Creepy Cathedral: In "The Hammer of God", though it's technically just a church. Father Brown implies that it was the practice of praying at the great height and literally looking down on everybody else which made the murderer susceptible to the thoughts of his own infallibility and a right to kill — appropriately enough, with Death from Above.
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Father Brown / int_f0a6a09d	type	Mistaken for Servant
Father Brown / int_f0a6a09d	comment	Mistaken for Servant: Used in at least two of the stories, "The Queer Feet" and "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois."
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Father Brown / int_f1d692eb	type	Stern Old Judge
Father Brown / int_f1d692eb	comment	Stern Old Judge: Sir Borrow Donnington in "The Donnington Affair". Father Brown considers him a man who has never had or wanted to have more than one virtue: justice. He sent his son Southby to prison for stealing money from him, and when he found out it was actually his daughter Evelyn who did it he killed her.
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Father Brown / int_f2bb1fb4	type	Let Off by the Detective
Father Brown / int_f2bb1fb4	comment	Let Off by the Detective: Flambeau, most notably, which precipitates his Heelâ€“Face Turn. But it happens often, because Father Brown, as a priest, is much more interested in confession and repentance than in punishment.
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Father Brown / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
Father Brown / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: In the story "The Sins of Prince Seradine". Curiously, both brothers, Paul and Stephen are evil, so it's a tale about a bad brother and a worse brother.
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Father Brown / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Father Brown / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Discussed in "The Chief Mourner of Marne". A penitent murderer's close associates wished to forgive him for his crime, but they only knew half the story of his crime; once the full story was disclosed they were more than willing to abandon him and let him suffer. Father Brown himself notes that sin is something that damages the sinner too, and that the more indefensible the sin, the more forgiveness is needed.
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Father Brown / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
Father Brown / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Done in many stories, most notably "The Point of a Pin".
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Father Brown / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Father Brown / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: The trope appears in "The Green Man", concerning two murder suspects who were courting the daughter of the victim, a rich admiral. Upon learning that the admiral is destitute, one suspect flees while the other suspect rushes to marry the daughter. Interestingly, Father Brown affords more sympathy to the fleeing suspect, who he considers merely misguided in his ambition of marrying money, while he considers the other suspect an overly proud man who didn't want to have a rich wife that can discredit his career.
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Father Brown / int_f79c0820	type	Idiot Houdini
Father Brown / int_f79c0820	comment	Idiot Houdini: Deliberately invoked in "The Hammer of God". A murderer has three suspects to pin his killing on: a husband, a wife and a village idiot. He picks the idiot believing his condition qualifies him, and will let him off. Father Brown points out that this reflects positively on him since he chose someone who wouldn't suffer for the accusation.
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Father Brown / int_f8c8175a	type	Malicious Slander
Father Brown / int_f8c8175a	comment	Malicious Slander: Father Brown was a victim of this in "Scandal".
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Father Brown / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Father Brown / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: Father Brown refers to a lawyer's wig as an erection made of horse-hair on the top of his head, with little tails behind, and grey corkscrew curls at the side, like an Early Victorian old woman".
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Father Brown / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Father Brown / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: Done in "The Three Tools of Death" and "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown".
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Father Brown / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
Father Brown / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Invoked in "The Oracle of the Dog" and ultimately subverted as the dog didn't detect any evil, but was just annoyed by a stick that didn't behave as it should - which turned out to be a murder weapon..
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Take Me Out at the Ball Game / int_40b4d50d
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