Night Watch: A Long-Lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Night Watch: A Long-Lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful: A pleasant diversion, but nothing more, April 29, 2002 Reviewer: jpcii from Island Heights,NJ Stephen Kendrick enters the Holmes pastiche realm with this meeting of Holmes and Father Brown. Creating a murder mystery set at a secretive international religious conclave, Kendrick sets an interesting table. Populated with familiar characters (Mycroft, Lestrade, Watson) and using the clever excuse that this was Watson's undiluted (by Doyle) account; Kendrick creates a page turner. But the little errors kept nagging at me. Like when Holmes states he never caught the Ripper because "he was too random, impulsive and totally haphazard," then in the next paragraph Holmes says, "The odder the murder, the easier it is to solve." The Ripper murders were not odd? Later Kozan, the Buddhist monk, compliments Holmes twice on his familiarity with Buddhist principles. Did he forget the first conversation? I'm usually not that much of a nitpicker but these types of errors interfered with my enjoyment of this book.