Summary: A collection of 8 short stories (mysteries) centered around the character Horne Fisher, someone that knows everyone and know why the system usually frames the wrong person.
I have been getting a bit bored with my standard fare lately so I keep switching books in rapid succession trying to find the right book to hit my mood.
The Man Who Knew Too Much was not it. But the stories are relatively interesting. I am not a fan of short stories. I like more character development and a longer story arc. But I enjoyed Chesterton’s Father Brown Mysteries so I gave this a try.
Horne Fisher is an intelligent, upper crust Englishman. He “˜knows too much’ about how things work and who is behind them. So these are a fairly cynical bunch of stories mostly centered around how those with money and power can get away with things that other cannot.
But Horne is there to explain and figure out the solution that sometimes puts the real person back in the spot light, although in the cases that I listened to it wasn’t about putting them in jail or punishing them, but simply identifying them, often because the guilty party is either already dead or in some other method has already received their ‘reward’. These stories are more about the why something was done than the how of Sherlock Holmes stories (so still a similar different as the Father Brown stories.)
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose is a play that recounts the deliberation of a jury in the murder trial. The jury is tasked to determine the future of an 18-year-old boy who is accused of killing his own father. At first, the case seems pretty obvious, but as the details of the case are discussed we discover that everything is not as open-and-shut as it seemed. The jury learns that biases and prior experiences play a role, unwittingly at times, in how facts are perceived and how events are interpreted. Tempers flare as the innocence and guilt of the defendant is discussed and a unanimous verdict must be found.
Summary: A suburban housewife and her two friends find out that their neighborhood struggles (PTA, school year books, crazy neighbors, etc) all might be connected to a much deeper problem than they could have expected.
Summary: It is ignorance, not knowledge that really drives science.
Summary: A surprisingly prepared 17 year old gets sent back into time to 14th Century Italy.
This is out of place in my normal book blogging. But over the past several months I have been thinking about the John Yoder problem (or to a lesser extent the AW Tozer problem that I discussed on my review of Tozer’s biography.) What prompted me to write this post was a 
