The Best Father Brown Secret Garden Story References. Chesterson wrote about his detective father brown. Web in “the blue cross,” aristide valentin (the head of the paris police) is sent to london to arrest a notorious thief named flambeau, who is a master of disguises.

A stranger is found murdered in a walled garden that has only one entrance. First, father brown is very suspicious of any suspect who ues specious reasoning or expresses insincere religious beliefs. When a headless body is found in a garden, and then a severed head is found in the same garden a short time later, people assume that one goes with the other.