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The Oracle of the Dog

A Father Brown mystery.

Format and runtime: Short story 54m

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About the story.

A man has been killed while apparently alone in a summerhouse, and a dog’s behavior has taken on great significance for the people discussing the case. Its reactions seem to offer a witness more certain than the human ones.

Father Brown likes dogs, but he is less comfortable with what people insist a dog must mean. Chesterton’s puzzle asks how easily an observation can become a story somebody else has supplied.