A familiar face from the nation’s TV screens is set to come to the stage in Croydon in a spine-chilling whodunit.

John Lyons, recognisable from A Touch of Frost, George and Mildred and The Sweeney, plays the title character in Father Brown – The Curse of the Invisible Man at the Ashcroft Theatre, Fairfield Halls, on September 16 and 17.

The story is based on the classic mysteries of GK Chesterton.

Multiple murders have been committed, but the culprit leaves no trace. Can he, or she, be truly invisible? And is it all really due to some malevolent ancient curse?

Mild-mannered Father Brown is called to the Edwardian country house of archaeologist Diana Hope and her niece Ella, where his incisive deductions peel away the many layers of this haunting case, until he finally unmasks the killer. But in the meantime, will the murderer strike again?

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