The Innocence of Father Brown {Back to the Classics Challenge}

This is the first book I finished for the 2016 Back to the Classics Challenge. It falls into the Classic Detective Novel (there you can read others' postings of their choice for this category). Admittedly I struggled and skimmed much...or zoned out when I was listening to it. Most of my 'reading' was accomplished on the librivox recording but goodness, the guy who read it was... um, I did not choose wisely to listen to this on audio.

Father Brown is small and unassuming, so naturally many find him to be a very unlikely detective. His stature and demeanor aren't helped by his vocation as a priest. Really, how many would think a priest would be a likely detective. He's an unlikely detective.

He is a Catholic Priest which made for some references with which I wasn't familiar. If you'd like to know more about the background of Father Brown, I found the wiki article to be helpful.

Some of the stories were downright amusing, others were just strange; all did have suspense and mystery. I did not always understand how Father Brown was able to solve the mysteries. Even though I've finished this book, I really feel like it went in one eye and out the other. Much was lost on me unfortunately. My favorite was the first story, "The Blue Cross," because of the silly antics of Father Brown to get noticed by the police.