Read: "The Club of Queer Trades," G.K. Chesterton, 1905 (manybooks.net)
Why: Finished "The Innocence of Father Brown," also on manybooks
Takeaway: Completely annoying. Maybe this would be fun if you read one of these per year, in a magazine, but to read them all at once was a bad idea. There's a mystery, and the solution is incredibly obscure, and one character goes through the entire story knowing the solution and eventually tells you it.