# Mr. Glass — The Wisdom of Father Brown character guide

> Mr. Glass in The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Glass, the prematurely bald Mr. Glass

**First appearance:** 0002-the-absence-of-mr-glass

## Snapshot

A prematurely bald lodger whose apparent absence from a locked room turns a domestic comedy into a puzzle of misread evidence.

## Who they are

Mr. Glass is the lodger whose non-appearance drives the mystery Father Brown brings to Dr. Hood's consulting rooms, a case tangled up with Maggie MacNab, young Todhunter and a household of sharp tempers. His bald head and his absence are the facts everyone builds theories on, and the criminologist's elaborate deductions depend entirely on taking them at face value. He matters because the story's joke and its moral both hinge on whether the great scientist or the little priest has really seen him.

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