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Ep.412 Father Brown: The Arrow Of Heaven

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

English - June 01, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 376 ratings
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Rough and tough Hard-boiled detectives grab a lot of attention, but who would have a better insight on the nature of human evil than “a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins”?
Where could you find a more “soft-boiled” character than the parish priest. Mutual brought The Adventures of Father Brown to the air in 1945. Father Brown was the antithesis of the more celebrated soft-boiled detective, Sherlock Holmes. Where Holmes was a master of deduction, Father Brown relied on intuition based on his familiarity on men’s souls.


The Arrow of Heaven: A trip to New York leads to a murky trail of blackmail and murder.

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