The secret of Father Brown

How it begins

CHAPTER THE SECRET OF FATHER BROWN 1. THE MIRROR OF THE MAGISTRATE 2. THE MAN WITH TWO BEARDS 3. THE SONG OF THE FLYING FISH 4. THE ACTOR AND THE ALIBI 5. THE VANISHING OF VAUDREY 6. THE WORST CRIME IN THE WORLD 7. THE RED MOON OF MERU 8. THE CHIEF MOURNER OF MARNE THE SECRET OF FLAMBEAU FLAMBEAU, once the most famous criminal in France and later a very private detective in England, had long retired from both professions. Some say a career of crime had left him with too many scruples for a career of detection. Anyhow, after a life of romantic escapes and tricks of evasion, he had ended at what some might consider an appropriate address: in a castle in Spain.