- A girl is found near-term dead at a private school fete that Father Brown is attending. His observations and intuition set him against the conclusions of the police, after suspicion falls on a pupil.
- The grandson of an authoritarian private school's headmaster is implicated in a murderous attempt on a girl's life. Suspicion then falls on the school's enigmatic and handicapped gardener. A further death changes everything. Subtle clues noticed only by Father Brown, and his compassionate intuition, allow him to sort the wheat from the chaff. An inter-school romance and a rivalry between Mrs McCarthy and Bunty provide counterpoints to the main plot of this period drama set in the bucolic fifties.—Kit
- At the Kemble Martyrs school fete May Lewis, a pupil from the girls' school next door, is found unconscious and rushed to hospital. Mallory arrests head boy Daniel Gates, who was secretly seeing May but then she is attacked again and there is another death. An incident from the past helps Father Brown identify the culprit.—don @ minifie-1
- During the cricket match of prestigious boys school Kemble Martyrs's annual festival, pupil May Lewis from the adjoining girls' school is hospitalized, badly beaten. Due to blood traces on his bat, inspector Mallory arrests head boy Daniel Gates, her secret lover, and the grandson of stern headmaster Philip Hart, who frequently canes but feels this firmly forbidden affair deserves lashing the dreaded rope cat onto Daniel's backside. Brown works out that deputy head master Sefton Scott has a discrete affair with the girls principal, while the silent grounds keeper Jack Coll, who wears strapped-on metal front arm races, is later found beaten to death in his barn dwelling. Brown clears Daniel and ties everything to a tragedy years before.—KGF Vissers
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