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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[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...