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=== '''Tropes featured in this series include: (Note that the following examples are heavy on spoilers!)''' ===

* [[Actually That's My Assistant]]: Invoked in "The Scandal of Father Brown"

* [[Actually, That's My Assistant]]: Invoked in "The Scandal of Father Brown"

* [[Amateur Sleuth]]: Father Brown.

* [[Attending Your Own Funeral]]: In "The Resurrection of Father Brown"

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* [[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.

* [[Brown Note]]: "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.

* [[Colour Coded for Your Convenience]]: A character with red hair is ''almost'' always Good in Chesterton. Less frequently, [[Blond Guys Are Evil]] -- especially if the blondness looks somehow artificial ("gilded").

* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: A character with red hair is ''almost'' always Good in Chesterton. Less frequently, [[Blond Guys Are Evil]] -- especially if the blondness looks somehow artificial ("gilded").

* [[Confessional]]: Is very often Father Brown's goal for the criminals he detects.

* [[Criminal Mind Games]]: "The Insoluble Problem"

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* [[Duel to The Death]]: In "The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," the eponymous doctor issues is a party in a duel that does not quite come off.

* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]: "The Arrow of Heaven" is a good example.

* [[Evil Detecting Dog]]: Subverted heavily

* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]: Subverted heavily

* [[Exact Words]]: Father Brown suffers from this constantly, as in "The Quick One": "...I never said he was a murderer. I said he was the man we wanted."

* [[Fairy Tale]]: As in "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown."

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* [[Gentleman Thief]]: Flambeau is an example.

* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: Regularly invoked by Father Brown himself.

* [[Green Eyed Monster]]: Very common, helping to spread round the motive for murder, as in "The Man in the Passage."

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Very common, helping to spread round the motive for murder, as in "The Man in the Passage."

* [[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''.

* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: Used in several stories, notably "The Invisible Man."

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* [[Impoverished Patrician]]: "The Doom of the Darnaways," for example.

* [[Interdisciplinary Sleuth]]: Father Brown is, as the name would imply, a priest.

* [[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. {{spoiler|The ugly one was the lover.}}

* [[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. {{spoiler|The ugly one was the lover.}}

* [[Malicious Slander]]

* [[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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* [[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.

* [[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. {{spoiler|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.

* [[Silly Rabbit Romance Is for Kids|Silly Rabbit, Romance Is For Kids!]]: At least, it's not for movie stars on their fifth marriages.

* [[Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids|Silly Rabbit, Romance Is For Kids!]]: At least, it's not for movie stars on their fifth marriages.

* [[Silver Bullet]]: In "The Dagger With Wings"

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''Pfarrer Braun''.

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* [[Unfriendly Fire]]: The story "{{spoiler|The Sign of the Broken Sword}}"

* [[White Magic]]: Invoked, and debunked, in "The Dagger with Wings" -- and re-invoked.

* [[Who Dunnit to Me]]?: In "The Resurrection of Father Brown."

* [[Who Dunnit to Me?]]?: In "The Resurrection of Father Brown."

* [[Writer On Board]]: Father Brown is a fairly accurate mouthpiece for Chesterton's views.