The Hound Of The Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle Reviews

. . . in a literary sense, that is. Reading some of the excellent existing reviews nearly put me off writing mine. But I must have my say, and will therefore take a slightly different approach. Doyle's background and the story's background have been covered in great detail. So I'll dwell on the points that set it apart from ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not invent what we now consider to be the classic detective novel. That claim can be forcefully made by Wilkie Collins with his novel 'The Moonstone', but Doyle more than anyone else developed the genre and with Sherlock Holmes the original gentleman amateur detective, he created one of the most enduring ...