I'm putting some random thesis notes up herre, trying to get my brain into gear.

Bird by bird

It's all bout borders, ennit?

I mean you, me, we're living and those before have gone on , right?

When they go on, how they go on--that's what this chap is all about. He finds out who did them in, or if anyone did them in at all

See, the thing is, these detectives, they aren't too different from a priest.

They deal with questions of life, questions of death.

Who was that person?, where are they going?, How did they die? Why did they die? What happens after they die?

Father Brown is both a priest and an amateur detective.
While the detectives are more concerned with victimology, the priest is more concerned with the crtiminals soul, their psychology. And it is this psychology that allows him to discover who the perpetrators fo the crime are. He' more interested in reforming the criminals he discovers, than the police detectives are in pus9inshing them.

What does he do? In the first story,