The Hammer of God (short story)

"The Hammer of God" is a short story by G. K. Chesterton. It features his detective, Father Brown, and was published in the short story collection The Innocence of Father Brown (1911).

It is a story about two brothers: "Colonel Bohun, a drunkard and playboy, and Reverend Bohun, curate of an Anglican church."^[1] Jennifer Halloran notes that it echoes the story of Cain and Abel: the curate murders his brother.^[1]

References

1 2 Halloran, Jennifer A. (2007). "Hammer of God, The". The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story. Infobase Publishing. p. 177. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

Works by G. K. Chesterton

Bibliography

Poetry	The Ballad of the White Horse (1911) Lepanto (1911) The Rolling English Road (1913) A Ballade of Suicide (1915)

Novels	The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) The Ball and the Cross (1909) Manalive (1912) The Flying Inn (1914)

Short stories	The Club of Queer Trades (1905) "The Blue Cross" (1910) "The Hammer of God" (1911) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (1936)

Non-fiction	Heretics (1905) Orthodoxy (1908) The New Jerusalem (1920) The Everlasting Man (1925)

Adaptations	Father Brown, Detective (1934) The Adventures of Father Brown (1945) Father Brown (1954) Das schwarze Schaf (1960) Er kann's nicht lassen (1962) Father Brown (1974) Pfarrer Braun (2003–2014) Father Brown (2013– )

Others	Father Brown The Chesterton Review Flambeau G. K.'s Weekly

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