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Yes, they are both very entertaining characters, but their mysteries are very much tailored to their strengths. (Conan Doyle at least had Watson mention that there were many cases Holmes was not able to solve, but of course they were not worth documenting - Brown is nigh infallible).

The Father Brown stories can have some very amusing insights about human nature, though it seems that while one might be able to have a stab at employing Holmes' method one would have little chance of ever learning Brown's (which was basically to put yourself so firmly into the mind of the perpetrator as to make the solution obvious).