Father Brown

The brother of the vicar of the village where Father Brown has his parish church is a cad and a wastrel. ... When he's found near the church tower with his head smashed by a very small hammer, the local blacksmith is the first suspect, but it's his wife who confesses the murder!
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When an alcoholic woman is found drowned near her home, Father Brown suspects murder, although the police think it's an accident.

A poet hangs himself in his locked conservatory. Father Brown thinks that it was not a suicide, but a murder.

Lady Felicia finds in her park a man on a tree,fallen from a passing train on a nearby viaduct.The man has been stripped and tortured, and Sid is accused of the crime.

Susie is fallen under the spell of the charismatic leader of a sect. When his wife dies in a suspicious accident, Father Brown intervenes but the prophet has a cast-iron alibi.

When two nuns are murdered,Father Brown investigates in the convent with the help of a young nun,very keen on detective fiction.

A radioactive girl is missing and only Father Brown can find the responsible for her disappearance.

When Clarence Clifton is murdered at a charity treasure hunt its organizer Professor Galloway believes he was the intended victim as they wore identical fancy dress. ... Daniel Walsh,whose father had recently been killed by a car driven by the professor's wife,Lady Margaret,is the chief suspect and disappears. Then Lady Margaret is killed,after sacking servant Thomas Dilcott,secret lover of her daughter Lucia. The villagers suspect Daniel but Father Brown looks closer to home for the solution.
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At a fete to raise funds for a Polish school unpleasant mayor William Knight is electrocuted by a microphone. ... Valentine arrests his long suffering wife Eleanor after a screwdriver is found in her handbag but there are plenty of other suspects,including his young daughter and the secretary he sacked after their affair was discovered, whilst he was also accused of bribery and corruption. As Father Brown solves the mystery a magician at the fete turns out to be the husband,presumed dead,of his housekeeper Mrs McCarthy,who walked out on her decades earlier. Now dying he ...
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When the notorious thief Flambeau declares his intention to steal a valuable blue cross from the church Father Brown,against the advice of Valentine,decides to take it to safety to Newbury abbey by train. ... He meets a trio of fellow passengers,one of which he is sure is the thief but his efforts to flush him out lead to the theft of the cross. Facing dismissal for his rash action the father agrees to meet with Flambeau and do a deal to return the artefact.
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Charlotte McKinley asks Father Brown to exorcise her house, which she believes is haunted by the ghost of her sister Elspeth, who disappeared nine years earlier. ... The priest believes somebody is fabricating a ghost but then Charlotte disappears from a locked room. Inspector Valentine suspects Charlotte's husband Victor, a former doctor struck off for irresponsible prescription and previously believed to have killed Elspeth. A skeleton is unearthed but it is not Elspeth's and a coded message in a book leads Father Brown to discover the fates of both sisters along with ...
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Wearing only a hospital gown Felix Underwood returns to the village and says 'Murder' before collapsing, apparently dead. ... At his funeral however the 'corpse' comes back to life but with a loss of memory. He was a patient at Danvers Retreat, a psychiatric hospital for service personnel, which Father Brown visits, along with new Inspector Sullivan, discovering a body hidden in a well. Father Brown gets himself admitted to Danvers Retreat in order to get close to a young woman who supplies clues in biblical texts and to solve both the murder and the mystery surrounding ...
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Impoverished aristocrat Sir St John Pryde plans to sell estate land, which antagonizes his tenants led by left-wing Alan Archer. ... On the day Pryde castle is opened to the public tour guide Audrey Diggle is murdered after claiming that she has evidence to state that the Prydes are not the lawful heirs to the title though St John's nephew Jago believes his uncle was the intended victim and St John's daughter Bunty is secretly in love with Archer. After an attempt to kill Jago Father Brown unmasks the murderer, in the process demonstrating that a supposed family curse has...
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Violet Fernsley is due to hang for killing her violent husband Ivan but Father Brown believes in her innocence. ... The Fernsley family close ranks but the priest is puzzled by the fact that Polish farm-hand Piotr Symanski disappeared around the time of the murder and also seems to have been slain. Ivan's brothers' squabbling over possession of his farm seems to incriminate one or both whilst Sullivan is suspicious of the fact that prison warder Charlie Denham is Violet's lover. Father Brown naturally deduces that the real murderer is the least likely suspect.
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Professor Ambrose is abducted after sending his friend Father Brown an ancient prayer book which supposedly can locate the long disappeared Lannington rosary, said to hold healing powers. ... Aided by Lady Felicia's chauffeur Sid the priest uses the book to find clues which will lead him to the rosary. There is a deadline as a ransom note arrives, informing the father that the rosary must be delivered to save his friend's life whilst the quest is complicated by the arrival of supposedly reformed criminal Flambeau, who claims he is working as a mercenary for the Papacy to ...
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The father is laid up with a broken leg, strait-laced young Father Roland standing in for him. When unpopular village gossip Mrs Bunyon is killed after a row at a cake baking contest Mrs McCarthy and Lady Felicia gather evidence for Father Brown to unmask the murderer - who has also killed MRs Bunyon's baking rival Vera Thimble. ... Many years earlier both women gave evidence which led to the hanging of a man accused of murdering a young child. Father Brown draws the connection and tries to save a third witness from becoming the next victim.
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Alice Armstrong is receiving electric shock treatment for memory loss after her accidental shooting her mother. ... Six weeks after her mother's death her father Sir Aaron is also found dead from a blow to the head, his hands tied. Suspicion falls on Jim Magnus, the chauffeur and a former petty crook and on Peter Royce, the secretary, who loves Alice and was sacked after telling Sir Aaron not to send her back to hospital. But a conversation with debt collector Eddie Monk informs Father Brown that the dead man owed huge sums of money and another confession suggests that ...
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Ex-colonel Gerard is poisoned after arguing with his nephew Edward. Edward is a former POW from Korea and the colonel claims he has been brain-washed but Edward sticks to his story that Gerard killed his father in order to marry his widow Ada. ... None of the household - including Ada's brother Rupert and his adopted daughter Jia-Li - seem upset at the colonel's death and each had a motive for murder. Then Father Brown is poisoned - hopefully he can recover in time to unmask the killer.
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Farmer John Tatton and his son Alfred do not get on, John accusing the boy of being a useless drunk like his late mother. ... Alfred confronts the family doctor Adam Crawford, taunting him for having a much younger wife Oona, who has just confided in Mrs McCarthy that she is pregnant. Alfred is found dead, mangled in farm machinery and soon afterwards anonymous letters appear, accusing Dr Crawford of the crime as Oona was supposedly having an affair with the dead man - something she denies. Dr Crawford confesses to the murder of Alfred but Father Brown knows better and ...
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Audrey McMurray, a rally driver and property owner, may appear to be a philanthropist but her ruthless treatment of her tenants has caused Harriet Welsby's husband to kill himself whilst she openly cheats on her husband Walter with young mechanic Gary Bakewell. ... Audrey is killed in a hill climb after somebody tampers with her car's brakes and Harriet is arrested after threatening her. Then Gary confesses but Father Brown is convinced that Walter and his wife's secretary Phyllis, who are lovers, are the culprits though he has difficulty in persuading Sullivan to let him...
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Lady Felicia's chauffeur Sid sees a man disposing of a body but the police claim that the dead man, Archie Waterson, drowned himself and warn Sid to say nothing. ... Archie was working as an art restorer for eccentric Lord Masters but when Father Brown and Lady Felicia visit it is apparent that the supposed restoration is a front for an MI5 operation, headed by Daniel Whittaker, whom Lady Felicia knew in the war. Whittaker tries to blackmail Felicia into finding out what Father Brown knows about the dead man since the priest has found a message from Archie which will lead...
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Father Brown and Lady Felicia are visiting a museum owned by her Egyptologist friend Sir Raleigh Beresford, who has just married the much younger Caterina. ... Caterina insists on opening a sarcophagus, an action which allegedly carries a curse and some time later she is found dying in a locked room. Sir Ralph's son Leo was having an affair with Caterina, making him a prime suspect, but then Raleigh's adoring secretary Valerie admits to the murder. Father Brown does not believe her and discredits her account before unmasking the real killer.
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When the circus comes to the village newly wealthy clown Reggie Smythe reminds waitress Laura Hope, engaged to young Nicholas, that she once promised to marry either him or circus hypnotist Arthur Welkin, whichever made his fortune first. ... Laura is quick to point out that she was only joking, but then Reggie is found stabbed to death after being threatened by Arthur Welkin--though Welkin has an alibi. Laura amazes everybody by agreeing to marry the hypnotist, so Father Brown announces that he will conduct the ceremony - and so uncover the truth.
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Father Brown and Lady Felicia visit the local barracks for the unveiling of the Dunkirk war memorial for which they have helped raise funds. ... The hero of Dunkirk was Colonel St Clare, who allegedly killed several Nazis with his broken sword but at dinner drunken Major Rawlings accuses St Clare of cowardice and is later found slain with the sword. St Clare is the obvious suspect but Father Brown, believing him to be innocent, discovers another person who remembers what happened at Dunkirk and has waited fifteen years before taking action.
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As the village cricket team prepares for its annual match against rivals Hambleston Indian doctor Chandraty steps in as its captain to the annoyance of bigoted club secretary Peter Wallander, who also suspects that loutish Vince Lennon, the team's star bowler and adopted son of academic Jane Milton is having an affair with his young wife . ... Lennon is murdered and turns out to have been blackmailing several of the villagers whilst an ancient law states that the team's defeat could lead to the new squire of Hambleston, parvenu Max Scullion, acquiring the cricket ground ...
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Whilst Father Brown is visiting the Upcott seminary for trainee priests young student Thomas Potts confesses to him that the recent drowning of his friend Douglas Hitchens was no accident before he plunges to his death from the bell tower. ... Father Brown suspects foul play but is blocked by the sinister Father Lewis and so, with the connivance of the elderly rector Father Palfreyman, sends Sid in undercover to pose as a trainee. He soon learns of the Secret Fraternity, an elite group of students, and believes that they are covering something up - but which of them is a ...
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When the travellers come to the village the overbearing Jeremiah Moxley objects and accuses them of robbing the church. ... Whilst Jeremiah's daughter, successful novelist Hannah - of whom he is wholly over-protective - is at a reading Jeremiah is killed in the style of a murder in Hannah's latest book. The prime suspect is young gypsy Alfons but Father Brown is convinced of his innocence and in proving it exposes a family secret that Jeremiah was desperate should not be made public.
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Marooned in the country Father Brown, Lady Felicia and Mrs McCarthy come across the Hotel Cuba where the exotic Madame Chania is organizing a weekend of hedonism for three wealthy playboys. ... Two prostitutes are expected but one is found dead and soon the guests are being murdered. Madame Chania would seem to be responsible but Father Brown uncovers a case of hidden identity and exposes a murderer who kills purely for the pleasure of it.
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Father Brown attends an open day at the vineyard Colonel Forbes-Leith runs with French viticulturist Gregoire Bisset but the wine is contaminated by a dead dog in the vat. ... Suspicion falls on sinister handy-man Henry Gibbs, who is blackmailing the colonel, whom he knew in the war, and when Gibbs is shot dead the colonel is arrested. Father Brown visits him in prison and discovers that he is not who he seems to be and that he is covering for the person he believes to be the real murderer.
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The local art gallery has the priceless painting 'The Judgement of Man' on loan from the Vatican and curator Binkie Cadwallader is flattered to be interviewed by the glamorous reporter Rebecca Himmelbaum. ... Father Brown is convinced that Flambeau is out to steal it and is proved right when Lady Felicia's gallant new American friend Chip Corner turns out to be the thief in disguise. But there is another miscreant out to steal the painting and Rebecca has her own agenda, to punish Binkie for a wartime betrayal.As a result Father Brown and Flambeau enter into a bizarre ...
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Father Brown visits student Jacob Francis at the family home as Lady Felicia is worried about him. Jacob's father died a year earlier, a presumed suicide, but Jacob is sure that he was murdered and has built a time machine in which he claims he can travel back to prove the case. ... His other relatives are cynical though his vision of the near future seems to be accurate. But when Jacob also dies Father Brown suspects that his theory was correct and tries out the time machine for himself.
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In a village stricken with polio barmaid Sylvia Swann is stabbed to death at the Standing Stones and her friend Ginnie Godden, the last person to see her alive, is arrested. ... Father Brown finds evidence to link local herbalist Malcolm to the murder site but Malcolm believes that Sylvia was ritually sacrificed to heal the polio victims and asks Father Brown to help him stop any further deaths.
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Whilst Father Brown and Mrs McCarthy are in the bank there is an armed hold-up but the robbers flee after the vault is opened to reveal the corpse of Billy Flanders, shady son-in-law of bank manager Samuel Harrogate. ... A note in the dead man's pocket incriminates Harrogate and Sullivan arrests him. Father Brown however realizes that the two bank clerks stand to gain by the manager's removal and later recognizes one of the robbers who tells the priest who planned the robbery. Father Brown comes to wonder why it was so important that he witnessed the failed heist before ...
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A mysterious visitor to the confession box informs Father Brown that choleric Bishop Talbot will be murdered so Father Brown joins Talbot at a shooting party where a shot is indeed fired though the victim is the seemingly innocent Albert Davies. ... The bishop had argued with actor Peter Redhill over his divorce and there is certainly intrigue among Redhill and his fellow players whilst the bishop seems to inexplicably own a large collection of banned plays. In his investigation the father finds that the play's the thing and also uncovers a bizarre pact.
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Father Brown is stunned to learn Inspector Sullivan is wanted for murder.

Father Brown investigates the murder of a B movie director when he comes to film in Kembleford

Sid is engaged with an heiress arrested for her father's murder.

Father Brown investigates the murder of a former hangman.

Father brown gets involved in the revenge of a crazy comedian.

Father Brown must help Flambeau in stealing the Pope's gift to the Queen.

Lady Felicia's reckless driving lands her in the next hospital bed to Mrs McCarthy.

Airman Ned LeBroc returns after eight years away, allegedly as a spy, only to discover his wife Meg, assuming he was dead, is marrying his brother Geoffrey. ... Daughter Millie is pleased to see him, unlike his wing commander father, who regards him as a deserter and coward. When Ned is shot dead Mallory arrests Meg but a card found in Ned's possession leads Father Brown to an unusual club which reveals Ned's secret life and the circumstances of his death.
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After young baker Alexander Moore dies in an accident, his corpse is stolen from the graveyard and discovered on the premises of undertaker Peter Blackstone, father of Alexander's secret girlfriend Catherine, who is in a feud with his mother Ruth, though he denies taking it. ... Father Brown realizes that Alexander had faked his own death but that something went wrong. In establishing how and why he uncovers a family secret dating back many years.
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Aircraft tycoon Robert Twyman is in receipt of notes stating that if he does not 'confess' his spoiled son Calvin will be killed; and indeed the boy is strangled. ... Twyman's butler, Wallace's strange behavior makes him suspect; but Robert believes the culprit is journalist Rosie Everton, seeking a meaty story. When Rosie is also murdered, Mallory arrests Robert; but Father Brown believes that visiting psychologist Mordaunt Jackson holds the key to solving the murders.
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Father Brown hosts a multi-racial jazz quartet whose car has broken down but they are interrupted by Emmanuel Jammite, who claims that cocky musician Joseph Sinclair stole his girlfriend, the band's singer Yveline from him back in Haiti. ... Emmanuel is a voodoo priest and curses Sinclair, whose corpse is later found floating in a swimming pool. Emmanuel swears his innocence but dies trying to flee from the law. Father Brown believes one of the band members is the true murderer and in trying to confront them almost loses his own life.
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A mysterious stranger, a missing donkey, an outbreak of laryngitis in the church choir and a kidnapped baby threaten to spoil Christmas festivities.

Bunty, Lady Felicia's niece, is suspected of murder while being looked after by Father Brown.

Father Brown concerns himself with the case of a murdered member of a pagan community.

Father Brown investigates the death of a local boxer.

Father Brown tries to solve the murder of an authoress with the help of a book she has written.

Father Brown finds himself blamed for the murder after an old foe tells him that she has arranged the death of her former lover.

Past and present collide when Father Brown investigates the macabre world of dollhouse crime scenes.

When Mrs McCarthy's goddaughter goes missing, Father Brown follows her trail to a risque gentlemen's club.

When Mrs McCarthy takes over the running of the mobile library, Father Brown discovers a shocking secret.

Father Brown must investigate a 300 year old secret hidden in a University in order to save an old friend.

Father Brown struggles to save Sid from himself when he vows vengeance on his former defence barrister.

When radio quiz Up To You comes to Kembleford, Father Brown suspects that one of the cast are responsible for their landlady's murder.

Father Brown investigates the murder of a Colonial Postal Service officer when the fair comes to Kembleford.

Father Brown's divine inspiration is called upon when Kembleford comes under threat of an alien invasion.

Father Brown suspects an ulterior motive is at play when his old adversary Flambeau is incarcerated for murder.

Father Brown (2013): Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown (2013): Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown (2013): Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown (2013): Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown (2013): Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown (2013): Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown (2013): Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown (2013): Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown (2013): Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown (2013): Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Father Brown (2013): Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Faced with the prospect of travelling in second class Lady Felicia (Nancy Carroll) is delighted to run into opera legend Dame Bianca Norman (Cecilia Noble) who invites her and Mrs McCarthy (Sorcha Cusack) away from the riff-raff into her private pullman carriage.Also on board is Bianca's fifth husband Piers Huntington (Matt Rawle) and adopted children Barbara (Olivia Hallinan) and Tony (Chris Lew Kum Hoi) who do not seem entirely happy with their life of luxury.After midnight the train stops and the carriage is plunged into darkness, allowing local farmers Lenny (Darryl Clark) and Daryl Cudlip (Andrew Turner) to seize Bianca's jewels. ... In the scuffle Bianca is killed and the panicking brothers take Lady Felicia and Mrs McCarthy hostage.Roused from their beds Father Brown (Mark Williams) and Bunty (Emer Kenny) visit the scene where Inspector Mallory (Jack Deam) promises to do all he can to find Lady Felicia and Mrs McCarthy. Meanwhile the ladies manage to break free at the farm, encountering younger brother Tim Cudlip (Jack Carroll) before an angry Lenny and Daryl return. With no clues as to where his friends are and killers on the loose, can Father Brown find them before it's too late
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A new musical director for the bell-ringers of St Marys leads to discord, disharmony and the blood-curdling sound of murder.

Father Brown must intervene when it appears that a dark spirit has murderous intent.

Father Brown uncovers secrets, hypocrisy and murder at a finishing school for young ladies.

When Father Brown and Mallory go missing, it's up to the gang to save them from a man hell-bent on revenge.

When Mallory's pursuit of a fugitive ends in disaster, a familiar face returns to hunt the culprit.

Suspicions are aroused when the holiest house in Kembleford is linked to the death of a wanton woman.

Tensions rise to deadly levels when a performance troupe of anarchists arrive in Kembleford.

The Kembleford Ramblers annual outing takes a tragic turn when the local Lord is found strangled.

When Lady Felicia's home comes under threat, Father Brown is forced to seek help from an unlikely ally.

A mysterious saboteur tries to stop Kembleford from winning the Three Counties Choir competition.

Father Brown investigates the mysterious death of a beekeeper.

Father Brown races to save Bunty from the hangman's noose when she is tried for murder.

Murder is no laughing matter when Father Brown visits a jester convention.

Flambeau seeks Father Brown's help to get rid of an unwanted rival.

Mrs McCarthy strikes it lucky at the church bingo with the help of a Romani fortune teller.

Sid returns to Kembleford to ask his old family to help save his new one.

Father Brown must discover who is out to kill a tortured artist before it's too late.

A gossip columnist is murdered after threatening to expose the secrets of a fashion house.

Father Brown joins forces with Chief Inspector Valentine to uncover a dark secret at Helmsley House.

Goodfellow turns to Father Brown when he witnesses Mallory frame an innocent man.

Mrs McCarthy gets an unwelcome birthday surprise when her life is threatened by a mysterious avenging angel.

Father Brown must delve into the past and open up old wounds when a child killer is found murdered.

When a troubled soul from the past returns, Father Brown must investigate the new chapter of the Church of Apollo.

Father Brown joins forces with Flambeau to search for a lost treasure in a 15th-century castle.

Father Brown finds his position under threat when he clashes with an influential new parishioner.

When Father Brown visits Chummy's holiday camp, it doesn't take long for someone to die-de-die.

Bunty reunites with Father Brown to uncover a dark secret at the local girls' borstal.

Father Brown investigates staff at the local health spa when an ex-employee is found murdered.

Lady Felicia's lavish New Year ball is ruined when a VIP is murdered.

It's all change for Kembleford. Not only is there the opening of a new model village, the labour of love for Peter Mossop and his best friend Joe Telford, but a property developer is proposing to build a new housing estate in the village. ... The planned vote on the development has torn apart siblings Brendan and Scarlett Streatham, whose late father owned the land. Father Brown is kept busy interviewing a new secretary following Mrs McCarthy's departure – he's torn between the orderly Mrs Burns and the enthusiastic Mrs Devine. He becomes distracted from this task to investigate the murder of Joe, who is found stabbed to death whilst walking his dog. When Peter's wife, Jennifer Mossop is also found dead, Father Brown realises the model village is being used by the murderer to plan their attacks.
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Lady Felicia's impromptu visit coincides with Father Brown helping out a friend at an exclusive gentlemen's club.

A celebrity florist brings glamour and murder to Kembleford.

Father Brown's past collides with the present when he investigates a missing person, a murder and a mythical wild cat.

Chief Inspector Sullivan pays Father Brown a visit to warn him that Hercule Flambeau is on the run and wanted for a series of brutal murders.