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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Réponse de wonder2wonder
le 13 janvier 2020 à 03h22
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.
Réponse de lima-2
le 15 janvier 2020 à 21h38
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.