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The Mistake of the Machine

A Father Brown mystery.

Format and runtime: Short story 37m

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About the story.

A discussion of new methods for detecting guilt turns Father Brown’s attention toward an apparently convincing criminal case. Scientific instruments promise certainty about reactions that ordinary observers might struggle to interpret.

Chesterton asks what happens when confidence in a method outruns understanding of the person being examined. Brown’s doubts make this a mystery about evidence, authority, and the temptation to let an apparatus settle a human question.