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The Doom of the Darnaways

A Father Brown mystery.

Format and runtime: Short story 1h 15m

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About the story.

An old coastal estate seems to embody its family’s gloomy traditions. Visitors find the Darnaways living beneath expectations of misfortune, with art, marriage, and inherited stories all affected by the atmosphere of the house.

Father Brown arrives among people who disagree about the source of that darkness. The mystery asks whether accepting a family’s supposed fate can make the evidence of an ordinary human act harder to recognize.