Comparing Favorite Father Brown Stories And A Morbid Taste For Bones

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“When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.” The words of Charles Baxter apply importantly to the world of mysteries and mysterious stories. Inside this essay, two vastly dissimilar mysteries will be observed and compared, Favorite Father Brown Stories, and A Morbid Taste for Bones. Within the realm of literature are numerous genres, one of which is mysteries, and many different types of mysteries fall underneath the field. Of the two stories mentioned, the first was a priest detective who solved mysteries with a reformed criminal almost always at his side, the latter a classic murder mystery solved and investigated by a humble monk. There are abundant quantity of qualities that must be imprinted

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