Sherlockian.Net: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Basic information

Abbreviation (J. F. Christ, 1947): HOUN
Word length (C. E. Lauterbach, 1960): 59,452
First published: Strand Magazine, serialized August 1901 through April 1902. First book editions, George Newnes Ltd. (London) and McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York), 1902.

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    Links of interest

  • 'The dark controversy about who actually wrote it' (from the Independent)
  • Spark Notes, 'today's most popular study guides'
  • The Baskerville Sitings, by David Richardson
  • Bertram Fletcher Robinson, mentioned in the dedicatory note
  • Dartmoor National Park
  • What to Do on Dartmoor
  • Devon Webworld
  • Dartmoor of the Baskervilles
  • H. M. Prisons | report on Dartmoor Prison
  • Black Dogs in Folklore
  • Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Les Evadés de Dartmoor (Sherlockian society)
  • Can fear really induce a fatal heart attack?
  • Laura Lyons, Playmate of the Month

    Redmond's Delicate Question

    First half: Within a few paragraphs of this novel's beginning, James Mortimer says to Sherlock Holmes, "I confess that I covet your skull." Is it right for a shiver to run down the reader's spine? And in how many ways does that unexpected sentence foreshadow what is to come as the events of the story unfold?

    Second half: This novel is often interpreted as a discussion of what happens when science and superstition meet. Is it also -- considering the lingering love with which doyle has Watson describe the rank vegetation of the mire and the bleak beauty of the moor -- about the collision between urban civilization and rural nature?

    "The View Halloa", by Rosemary Michaud
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