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The Worst Crime in the World

A Father Brown mystery.

Format and runtime: Short story 31m

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About the story.

A meeting with a young relative brings Father Brown near a family whose respectable circumstances conceal deeply troubling tensions. The possibility of wrongdoing is difficult enough; agreeing on what its true seriousness might be is another matter.

Chesterton gives the priest a case in which judgments of character and judgments of conduct pull against one another. The title’s challenge hangs over a story that refuses to let outward standing settle the question of guilt.