S4 E1
The Mask of the Demon
Inspector Mallory’s first case and Coughton Court doubling as the gloriously Gothic film set.
Original parish circle · 2016
Series 4
10 episodes · 4–15 January 2016. A spoiler-light orientation with direct access to every case file.
Orientation
What changes here?
Inspector Mallory arrives as the original parish circle approaches its first major transition.
- Opening case
- The Mask of the Demon
- Closing case
- The Wrath of Baron Samdi
- Parish era
- Original parish circle
- Catalogue coverage
- 1 cases with explicit location evidence
S4 E2
The Brewer's Daughter
A personal case for Sid, built around loyalty, inheritance and the Fitzgerald brewery.
S4 E3
The Hangman's Demise
Mrs McCarthy’s unexpected romance unfolds beside a case about capital punishment and police corruption.
S4 E4
The Crackpot of the Empire
A closed-circle mystery whose theatrical host may be eccentric, dangerous—or both.
S4 E5
The Daughter of Autolycus
The Flambeau rivalry becomes a family story, with papal politics and two generations of thieves in play.
S4 E6
The Rod of Asclepius
The parish team turns a hospital ward into an improvised detective office while Father Brown follows the medical evidence.
S4 E7
The Missing Man
A sensitive story about identity, wartime absence and why exposing the truth is not always the same as serving justice.
S4 E8
The Resurrectionists
Competing funeral businesses, a forbidden relationship and a particularly macabre piece of physical evidence.
S4 E9
The Sins of the Father
Music provides the route through two deaths, a locked house and the sins hidden by a powerful father.
S4 E10
The Wrath of Baron Samdi
Sid’s final regular episode before his later return, with jazz-club atmosphere and a race against poison.