- When two nuns are murdered, Father Brown investigates in the convent with the help of a young nun, very keen on detective fiction.
- Father Brown is visiting St Agnes convent where he is chaplain when novice Sister Mary Magdalene is poisoned, leading to the father speaking to the convent's vintner Sister Boniface, a fan of detective stories who is keen to help him solve the murder. Then newly-arrived Sister Paul, an austere, dominating nun, is also poisoned and it would seem that she was a secret drinker who ate pear drops to mask the smell of alcohol and was killed by poisoned wine. She had also been the strict warden at a home for unmarried mothers some years earlier. Father Brown and Sister Boniface independently find a link between one of the mothers and a current inhabitant of the convent, but is this the killer? And do the convent's philandering young gardener and his cowed wife know more than they claim?—don @ minifie-1
- At St. Agnes convent saying mass for the sisters, Father Brown and others present are shocked when a postulate, Sister Mary Magdalene, walks into the church dressed in white and collapses at the altar, dead. Father Brown's poisoning is confirmed by the medical examiner. Inspector Valentine, as always, wants Father Brown to stay out of the investigation but this time around get to accompany him in the convent in his role as a chaperon. A new arrival is Sister Paul, a strict disciplinarian who has raised the ire of many of the sisters with her conservative and unyielding approach. She also has some information about the Reverend Mother Augustine that she would like kept private. Sister Paul is soon after found poisoned and Father Brown, assisted by the mystery-loving Sister Boniface, determines that at least one of the deaths relates to events from long ago.—garykmcd
- While Brown celebrates the mass for sister Mary Magdalen's wedding to Christ, the novice dies from fast cyanide poisoning. The toxin is stolen from the cloister's winery, where labels were falsified and chemist and vintner nun Boniface eagerly offers her skills as Agatha Christie fan to assist Brown's investigation, while Inspector Valentine is forced to accept monastery chaplain Brown's services as 'chaperon'. They look especially at excessively strict novices master sister Paul, who transferred from Calcutta, spineless superior mother Augustine, studly but grumpy gardener Tom Evans and his shy wife Joyce, whom Brown links to the monastery's 'moral guidance' service which separates young mother from illegitimate children for adoption by married couples. A second poisoning occurs, so Brown must race to untangle the secrets and prevent further violent crimes.—KGF Vissers
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