The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton. Based on a parish priest who was partially responsible for Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922, Brown is a stubby Catholic priest equipped with a large umbrella, a formless outfit and a sharp insight into the human nature. The stories included here are:

• The Absence of Mr Glass
• The Paradise of Thieves
• The Duel of Dr Hirsch
• The Man in the Passage
• The Mistake of the Machine
• The Head of Caesar
• The Purple Wig
• The Perishing of the Pendragons
• The God of the Gongs
• The Salad of Colonel Cray
• The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
• The Fairy Tale of Father Brown