User Reviews

I'm enjoying catching up on the early years of Father Brown. Anyway, it's ghosts aplenty or so we think in this second season opener. Anyway, Nancy Carroll as Lady Felicia steams the screen relatively speaking for daytime television.

Sadly this episode sees Hugo Speer depart as Inspector Valentine, with the introduction of Tom Chambers as Inspector Sullivan. I really hope that the Father Brown producers don't cave in to the mob by denying Hugo Speer the right to return to Father Brown please. I haven't watched many episodes featuring Inspector Sullivan, so I'm looking forward to those episodes.

This is by far my favorite episode. I'm going to give a few spoilers, so don't read this if you don't want to know what happens.

When you've got an old manor house that is hundreds of years old, and creepy, ghostly things happening, and you've got beautiful women involved, along with dark, secret passages and hidden panels, old legends of lost treasure, and a bit of history about the middle ages...what else could you want? You also learn a bit more about the lovely Lady Felicia, and her "darker" (i.e. sexier) side. This may not sit well with some, but I find her very sexy so whatever.

The general story is a missing person mystery with the usual intrigue involving old lovers. I found it very entertaining. There was one funny line, near the end. The family was lamenting how the father lost his job and they had to give up their old lifestyle in London. Yet they moved to this huge old mansion in the Cotswolds and live a life most of us only dream about. Holy cow, what did they live on if they were so poor? I don't know enough about the British property laws and tax systems and whatnot, but a place like that would cost a fortune. And to live there without working, who could do that? These stories are from the early 1950's, by the way.

Another absolute gem of an episode, this combines everything that is great and mysterious about British country homes, with Father Brown's detective amazing work, mixed in with the best episode for the Inspector as well as an exciting mystery. They again made this feel like two episode in one almost, without it seeming rushed, crammed or otherwise unfinished. The ending was very intruiging also.