- When an alcoholic woman is found drowned near her home, Father Brown suspects murder, although the police think it's an accident.
- After Colonel Reginald Adams and his actress wife Anne-Marie have forbidden their young daughter Ruby to marry her tutor, the American communist John Van Ert, Anne-Marie is found drowned. Inspector Valentine believed she fell in the lake whilst drunk but Father Brown proves it was murder. Learning that the couple argued, Valentine arrests Reginald just as Anne-Marie's long-lost brother James Trewlove arrives from Nairobi. Anne-Marie's will leaves James nothing, with the chief beneficiary being the church whilst Ruby is bequeathed the Flying Stars,a valuable necklace. During a performance of a play at the Adams' house the necklace is stolen. Father Brown manages to unmask both thief and Anne-Marie's killer.—don @ minifie-1
- Anne-Marie Adams has a serious drinking problem that affects all of those around her. She had promised her husband Reginald that she would stop but when he finds her drunk, he tells her he will seek a divorce. She also objects when her daughter Ruby announces she is to marry American John Van Ert. Anne-Marie brother, James Trewlove, has just arrived that very day from Nairobi. When Anne-Marie is found drowned Inspector Valentine thinks it's an accident but Father Brown isn't so sure. When they find blood on an oar, it's now believed to be murder. Father Brown quickly finds a reason to exclude most of the suspects narrowing the list to one. He must now found a way to expose the killer.—garykmcd
- Inspector Valentine arrests colonel Reginald Adams for the murder -which he would have called a row boat accident without Brown- of his loud wife, actress Anne-Marie, whom he must release on bail, and who suspects daughter Ruby's American communist lover John Van Ert, whom the couple sacked as her tutor and forbade to see her. Everybody is puzzled by Anne-Marie's last will, which excludes her brother James Trewlove who just arrived after twenty years in colonial Kenya, and leaves famous heirloom diamond necklace 'Flying stars' to Ruby. James insists to take his sister's part so the play she wrote and was passionate about can be performed, but during it a new crime occurs. Brown works out little is what it seems, not even everybody.—KGF Vissers
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