The Innocence and Wisdom of Father Brown
10 best books like The Innocence and Wisdom of Father Brown (G.K. Chesterton): Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Partners in Crime, The Batboy, The Old Man in the Corner, The Leavenworth Case, The Red Thumb Mark, The Middle Temple Murder, Anne of Green Gables: Three Volumes in One, The House Of A Thousand Candles, No Second Chance
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
| Author | Grace Lin |
| ISBN | 0316114278 |
In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the fields and her nights listening to her father spin fantastic tales about the Jade Dragon and the Old Man of the Moon. Minli's mother, tired of their poor life, chides him for filling her head with nonsense....
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007111509 |
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way: a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic...
From the #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica comes the story of baseball's unsung hero: The Batboy
It is every baseball kid’s dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year- old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols....
The Old Man in the Corner
| Author | Emmuska Orczy |
| ISBN | 1406835897 |
Not a word against baronesses … A certain Danish baroness began her tale with the words: “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills …”
Some baronesses just have better writing skills than others.
Even this collection, one of many, of short stories about The Old Man...
| Author | Anna Katharine Green |
| ISBN | 1402170122 |
• This eBook contains 13 illustrations, including all the drawings by G.W. Peters used in a 1905 printing by G.P. PUTMAN’S SONS.
“The Leavenworth Case” is the first novel of Anna Katharine Green, an American poet and novelist, who was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America,...
| Author | R. Austin Freeman |
| ISBN | 1406596280 |
Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medicolegal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story and used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. A large proportion of the Dr Thorndyke...
| Author | J.S. Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0486239101 |
All this led up to the appearance of Mr. Aylmore, M.P., in the witness-box. And Spargo knew and felt that it was that appearance for which the crowded court was waiting. Thanks to his own vivid and realistic specials in the Watchman, everybody there had already become well and thoroughly acquainted with...
| Author | L.M. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0517605171 |
Mark Twain prolaimed Anne Shirley "the most moving and delightful" and "dearest" heroine since the immortal Alice." Millions of readers young and old, in countries all over the world, have agreed; particularly those hovering on the brink of their teens have followed her dauntless leadership into...
The House Of A Thousand Candles
| Author | Meredith Nicholson |
| ISBN | 1406835285 |
1905. Nicholson lived and traveled extensively in Indiana and it was a rich resource for his writing. The House of a Thousand Candles provides readers with the view of an outsider coming to Indiana. The book begins: Pickering's letter bringing news of my grandfather's death found me at Naples early...
| Author | Harlan Coben |
| ISBN | 0451210557 |
I know some may think Harlan Coben beneath them, but let me explain why I find myself enjoying his books: First, I'm tired as heck of books where nothing happens but blushes hidden and a cough of disapproval. Second, I always had a fondness for books on killers (not to understand myself, but the opposite,...
