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** Also awesome in "The Queer Feet" is his [[Badass Boast]], when the larger and stronger Flambeau, not recognizing him, says, "I don't want to threaten you." Father Brown replies that ''he'' wants to threaten ''the thief'', and '''then''' finishes up with, "I am a priest, Monsieur Flambeau ... and I am ready to hear your confession." Just hearing that makes Flambeau stagger and have to sit down.
* [[Fridge Logic]]: {{spoiler|In the first story, when Flambeau asks for the package, he reveals that he actually swiped it some time ago in the next sentence. Why would he then stay with Father Brown and ask for it at all?}}
** Flambeau likes to get fancy with his crimes. For example, at one point he lists various types of people that can be profitably robbed or swindled, along with the [[Doing It for
*** [[Gentleman Thief|Flambeau]] [[Mugging the Monster|also wants to mock the celibate dreaming simpleton Father Brown by outsmarting him]].
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: [[In
* [[Values Dissonance]]: Chesterton's racial and national attitudes were actually very moderate for the early twentieth century, but some will often strike a sour note for modern readers in the midst of his most enjoyable works, as for example in "The God of the Gongs." His religious views, on the other hand, were entirely conscious, and will strike the reader as either refreshingly forthright or offensively aggressive, according to taste.
** This article published at the Golden Age of Detective Fiction Forum [http://gadetection.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/the-sins-of-the-saint-racism-in-gk-chesterton/ The Sins of the Saint: Racism in GK Chesterton] written by a Chesterton’s fan, analyzes 15 Father Brown’s tales that seem to contain this and absolves some of [[Unfortunate Implications]]… and others not. It also points that a lot of classic authors of [[Detective Literature]] ([[
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