I ran across the source material for this series, a collection of short stories by author G.K. Chesterton. THE BLUE CROSS was the very first Father Brown story published in 1910.
In it, Brown outwits the famous thief Flambeau and the brilliant French detective, on his trail, "Inspector Valentin." It's interesting to compare the literary to the cinematic.
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Reply by wonder2wonder
on January 13, 2020 at 3:22 AM
Flambeau has been in every series at least once. And he has a daughter now, who is at least as good a thief as he is.
Father Brown is still trying to get him, and now also his daughter, to repent, and leave their life of crime behind.
Reply by lima-2
on January 15, 2020 at 9:38 PM
At first glance, I thought the name "Hercule Flambaeu" was a rip off of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. As I later discovered, G.K. Chesteton's characters Father Brown and Hercule Flambeau pre-dated Agatha Christie's characters by at least a decade. Who ripped off who? lol. Now I'm wondering if the literary Flambeau was a copy-cat of Raffles, the gentleman thief, created by E.W. Hornung? Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law.