The Menace of Mephistopheles
father brown

Phillip Darlington is stabbed to death and Inspector Mallory arrests his son Lawrence after finding a knife in his bedroom; a knife Sergeant Goodfellow saw Mallory plant. Goodfellow after confronting Mallory seeks Father Brown's help who with Sid Carter discover Mallory's wife and children are missing complicating matters. Darlington's daughter, Arabella, also returns home from Oxford having just married that weekend. Brother and sister claim they slept all night; the brother in the house and the sister with her new husband in Oxford. A stolen car and a man, known to Sid's prison contacts, Mallory wronged ten years ago has returned for retribution.

Episode Duration: 45 minutes and 3 seconds

Episode Number: 191

About Father Brown:

Based on the short stories by G K Chesterton, Father Brown follows the kindly cleric as he solves crimes in his community.

It is a quintessentially English world: drawing rooms in large country houses, miles of countryside, village halls and secret gardens, as well as country fairs, railway stations and rural parish churches.

Each episode sees the enigmatic priest investigate a crime in his own particular way, using intuition and psychology.

Father Brown discovers the truth of a crime by looking into the truth of the soul - the passions, dark secrets, hidden desires.

Many years spent hearing his parishioners' confessions have given him an uncanny insight into the origins of evil and the workings of the criminal mind.

But the stories are not concerned with judgement - Father Brown is more interested in saving souls than in bringing the guilty to justice.


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