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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 rôle. In 1954 ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BNonixFao Father Brown]'' (U.S. title, ''The Detective'') appeared with Alec Guinness as the eponymous priest. Heinz Rühmann played Father Brown in two German adaptations of Chesterton's stories, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqXBj4S2kNE Das schwarze Schaf]'' ("The Black Sheep") (1960) and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS8isZQjGO8 Er kann's nicht lassen]'' ("He Can't Stop Doing It") (1962). (The score to these, by Martin Böttcher, became very popular in Germany.) In 1970 an Italian television series entitled ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCVk_MNMe8 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 ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UZG6S-vCY8 Father Brown]'' TV series, each episode adapted from one of Chesterton's short stories. In 1979, the TV move ''Sanctuary of Fear'' featured an American Father Brown (Barnard Hughes) sleuthing in contemporary New York City. A German television series, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVKROsrsjXI Pfarrer Braun]'' ("Pastor Brown"), loosely based on the Chesterton character, is in production since 2003; its title theme by Martin Böttcher is a [[Shout
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* [[Hypocrite]]: As, for instance, in "The Ghost of Gideon Wise."
* [[Identical Grandson]]: In "The Doom of the Darnaways." (Ho-ho!)
* [[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.
* [[Impoverished Patrician]]: "The Doom of the Darnaways," for example.
* [[Interdisciplinary Sleuth]]: Father Brown is, as the name would imply, a priest.
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* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: As in "The Worst Crime in the World."
* [[Satchel Switcheroo]]: Used ''twice'' in ''The Blue Cross''.
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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.
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