This is a racy and campy edition of Father Brown. It has to be remembered that this is broadcast in the afternoon slot on the BBC.
Malicious and vindictive writer Lucia Morell is on her uppers. Her kind of smutty books are old hat, she does not have a publishing deal and reduced to live in a hovel on the edge of Kembleford. She drops in on her former lover philanthropist Lady Ursula Lansford demanding money or she will expose her shame.
Lady Lansford's house is used to reform ex convicts. Her son has taken a shine to one of the ladies staying in the house. Friar Novak is the gamekeeper who is the only one who's trying to understand her son.
Morell is found dead with her hand cut off. Soon another person is found dead. Inspector Mallory is amazed by the amount of suspects but Father Brown thinks that the clue to the murderer is found in Morell's lusty books.
This overripe episode is a hoot but not for all the right reasons.