Case 55 · Series 5, episode 10

The Alchemist's Secret

First broadcast 12 January 2017. Plot solution deliberately omitted.

WriterRob Kinsman
DirectorSimon Gibney
Research stateExpanded case file

Spoiler-light premise

A professor suffering memory loss asks Father Brown to solve a centuries-old riddle, then becomes the suspect when a student is killed.

What to watch for

The search for an alchemical formula uncovers the reason an entire village vanished from the map.

Family secrets

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