Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? In The Innocence of Father Brown , G.K. Chesterton explores the darker side of human nature—the diversity of evil—as revealed in murder, theft and madness. Father Brown, a seemingly insignificant Catholic priest, unravels these often bizarre and surreal puzzles through his intuition rather than deduction.