The Fairy Tale of Father Brown

ON THE OTHER END OF THE LINE

About the story.

A small European town puts Father Brown in a fanciful mood, until Flambeau recalls an old political mystery associated with it. The reported circumstances seem to place the death of a prince beyond any straightforward explanation.

Brown turns the conversation into an imaginative investigation. What sounds at first like a story fit for painted scenery must still answer practical questions about people, power, and what witnesses could have known.