The Hound Of The Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle Reviews

For lovers of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, this is an absolute treat. It opens in classic Conan Doyle style with Holmes & Dr Watson trying to guess the identity of a visitor to their rooms from the clues on his walking stick. When the visitor returns we find Homes has it spot on, of course - & there are Holmes trademarks like this ...  Read the complete review

The Hound of the Baskervilles is Sherlock Holmes most famous case, its usually the one that gets made first as a film or television series, personally its not my favourite but has all the elements of a classic Holmes mystery. Whats the story? Well this is a classic Holmes novel in that the story has some ancient aspect too ...  Read the complete review

'Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish, be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.' Originally serialized in 1901, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a classic mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring ...  Read the complete review

. . . 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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review