in some of the stories ". . .he solves the problem entirely by his psychological interpretation of the characters".
(hollis 181)

"One cannot help sometimes wishing that he might for once be wrong."
Hollis 181)

"In _The Arrow of Heaven_ Father Brown turns himself in the last paragraphs from detective into prophet and denounces the American family which had been anxious to espose the criminal when they thought that he was a man of no consequence and then became much more anxious to conceal him when they found that he was a reich man and a member of their own family"
(Hollis 181)

"Writers of detective stories have to make their murderers more interesting that the murderer of reality, to save their stories from intolerable boredom."

(Hollis 181)

"The technique of the story requires that the murder be always commited by the person whom one would not naturally suspect."

(Hollis 181)