Much reading is a weariness of the flesh

[flemmings]

The best thing in the weird!Holmes book was the Kim Newman story, and even that I'm having trouble finishing.

Surely someone must have done Sherlock Holmes meets Father Brown?

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[unearthly-calm.livejournal.com]

That sounds like it would be a fascinating but really awkward encounter. Father Brown is so very black and white, so concerned with issues of evil versus good, while Sherlock Holmes has always seemed slightly amoral to me. More concerned with getting to the bottom of a case for the pure pleasure of getting it right or setting the record straight than because he's particularly concerned with the moral health of the persons concerned.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Holmes would be bemused at how Brown reaches the right conclusion through the (entirely!) wrong method; Brown would have dark forebodings at the future career of a man who makes logic his god and shuns human attachments. In Conan Doyle's universe, Brown would trip up; in Chesterton's, Holmes would be revealed as the killer. Authors do stack the odds against their anti-favourites, but Chesterton more than C-D. I think: but then I'm out of sympathy with GKC's values.

[unearthly-calm.livejournal.com]

hmm, I haven't read enough Chesterton to have gotten fed up with him.
I have read a critique that explained why I might if I read more Father Brown, so I see where you're coming from...