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Hercule Flambeau is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who appears in 16 short stories about the character Father Brown. A master criminal, his surname "Flambeau" is an alias, the French word for a flaming torch. He first appeared in the story "The Blue Cross" as a jewel thief. Father Brown foiled his attempted ...
Aristide Valentin, head of the Paris Police, is on the trail of the world's most famous criminal, Hercule Flambeau. Flambeau is a master of disguise and may appear to be anyone, but he cannot conceal his immense height: he is six feet four inches tall. Valentin suspects that the arch-criminal is going to London to attend an international ...
Hercule Flambeau – John Light (2013–present): the nemesis of Father Brown; a jewel and art thief who seems to be without conscience. He and Father Brown have encountered each other at least once in every series; in series four he reveals he has a daughter, Marianne Delacroix, whom he had never met.
On a frigid winter's night in England, Father Brown and his friend Hercule Flambeau visit a lonely churchyard and view the monumental tomb, with a broken sword alongside the recumbent effigy, of the late British General Sir Arthur St. Clare, who is adulated by the British public (and American tourists) as a war hero. On their ensuing long walk ...
Father Brown makes his first appearance in the story "The Blue Cross" published in 1910 and continues to appear throughout fifty short stories in five volumes, with two more stories discovered and published posthumously, often assisted in his crime-solving by the reformed criminal M. Hercule Flambeau.
Hercule Flambeau: Dennis Edwards: Doctor Desmond Cullum-Jones: Police Constable Dudley Jones: Thurston Edward Evans: Inspector Cole Eric Dodson: Auctioneer Freda Dowie: Opal Banks Frederick Hall: Landlord Frederick Treves: Reverend David Price-Jones Geoffrey Chater: Leonard Smythe George Roubicek: John Wilton Geraldine Moffatt: Elizabeth Barnes ...
Father Brown receives a warning from the international thief, Hercule Flambeau, that he intends to steal a pricelss relic. To pre-empt the theft, Brown enters a battle of wits to ensure that the item, the Blue Cross, is not stolen, and in the process discovers there is a deep connection between himself and Flambeau, linked with the Great War .
Hercules, in Roman mythology; Hercule Poirot, a detective created by Agatha Christie; Hercule Flambeau, in the Father Brown mysteries by G. K. Chesterton; Hercule (Dragon Ball) or Mr. Satan, in the Dragon Ball franchise; Hercule, from the comic book Pif et Hercule