The Innocence of Father Brown
The Innocence of Father Brown
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As far as my mystery experience goes I've only recently gotten into some Hercule Poirot, and most recent, Sherlock Holmes.
I feel like this collection really lacks any guidelines and rule building for the Father Brown world. He is a practicing priest that also has a hand at detective work, but mostly he solves crime through his intuition rather than deductive work? I found that a lousy reasoning. And I'm sure in the character history there's more to it, but it certainly wasn't in this collection of stories.
Not to mention most of these stories jump directly into it without anything else and more than one ends with something along the lines of, “that's it, there's nothing more.” It is mostly for that reason that I found these lackluster and really struggled to enjoy.
It's very uneven... but it's a collection of short stories. They are all rather clever, though. I'm just a bit bothered by atheists being depressed and suicidal, pagans being evil, and other such things...
Series
5 primary books6 released booksFather Brown is a 10-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1911 with contributions by G.K. Chesterton and Miguel Temprano García.