# Gideon Wise — The Incredulity of Father Brown character guide

> Gideon Wise in The Incredulity of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Gideon, Wise, old Wise, old Gideon, the late Gideon Wise

**First appearance:** 0002-the-incredulity-of-father-brown

## Snapshot

A rich, self-made magnate whose fortune and opinions make him a public monument, and whose death becomes the puzzle that will not stay solved.

## Who they are

Gideon Wise is one of those wealthy men whose name carries weight in business and in the newspapers, a figure whose money and confidence touch everyone around him. His wealth draws hangers-on, dependents, and enemies in equal measure, and the question of what happens to his estate and his reputation sets the people near him circling. When he dies, the circumstances refuse to behave like an ordinary death, and the case becomes the hinge on which the surrounding investigations turn.

## In the story

### [The Incredulity of Father Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_incredulity_of_father_brown_se/chapters/the-incredulity-of-father-brown)

A millionaire involved in the events surrounding the Coptic Cup murders.

### [The Ghost of Gideon Wise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_incredulity_of_father_brown_se/chapters/the-ghost-of-gideon-wise)

Old-fashioned millionaire who resists joining the combine; later supposedly murdered but actually alive; his 'ghost' is seen by Horne.

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