‘The Hound of the Barkervilles’ is the crime novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22nd May 1859- 7th July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Homes in 1887. Sherlock Homes is a fictional private detective. He is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning. He is characterised in many investigating cases for a wide variety of clients including Scotland yard. This character has been picturised in many events. Holmes popularity and fame are such that many have believed him to be not a fictional character but a real individual. Even ‘Guinnes World Records’ lists him as the most portrayed literary human character in film and Television industry. Doyle was a prolific writer. His works include fantasy, science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. The novel narrates on crime and focus on Dartmoor. The detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson are called to investigate the mysterious death of a healthy Dartmoor, whose death apperars to be connected with the curse of a legendary, monstrour hound of supernatural orgin. The story is set in the moors at Baskerville Hall and the nearby Grimpen Mire, and the activity takes place at night hours. It all happens in order to inheriot the family estate our and all the whole story seens very thrilling and full of horror and mystries.
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“I have in my pocket an manuscript,” said Dr. James mortimer.
“I observed it as you entered the room,” said Holmes.
“Early Eighteenth century, unless it is a forgery.”
“How can you say that sir?”
About the Author
Conan Doyle received Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery qualifications from Edinburgh in 1881 and an M.D. in 1885 upon completing his thesis, An Essay upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis.
This master of diagnostic deduction became the model for Conan Doyles literary creation, Sherlock Holmes, who first appeared in A Study in Scarlet, a novel-length story published in Beetons Christmas Annual of 1887. Other books of Conan Doyles are the Firm of Girdlestone (1890) and The Stark Munro Letters (1895), and in the collection of medical short stories Round the Red Lamp (1894). (See also Sherlock Holmes: Pioneer in Forensic Science.) Conan Doyles creation of the logical, cold, calculating Holmes, the worlds first and only consulting detective, sharply contrasted with the paranormal beliefs Conan Doyle addressed in a short novel of this period, The Mystery of Cloomber (1889). Conan Doyles early interest in both scientifically supportable evidence and certain paranormal phenomena exemplified the complex diametrically opposing beliefs he struggled with throughout his life.
Conan Doyle continued writing Sherlock Holmes adventures through 1926. His short stories were collected in several volumes, and he also wrote novels (e.g., The Hound of the Baskervilles, serialized 190102) that feature Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Conan Doyle, however, claimed the success of Holmes overshadowed the merit he believed his other historical fiction deserved, most notably his tale of 14th-century chivalry, The White Company (1891), its companion piece, Sir Nigel (1906), and his adventures of the Napoleonic war hero Brigadier Gerard and the 19th-century skeptical scientist Professor George Edward Challenger.
