Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He studied at

Stony Hurst as a member of the Society of Jesus which was a religious

order founded in the early sixteenth century. He graduated in medicine

from Edinburgh in 1881, winning his doctorate in 1885. With his

degree, he practised medicine at South Sea in the 1880s as well as

other different locations. His literacy career began at the age of

twenty, inventing Sherlock Holmes at the age of twenty-six. From

moving to London, he transferred the characters Sherlock and his

partner Watson into short stories which were published in the Strand

magazine. Doyle was seen to have detective stories down to a fine art;

his influence almost omnipresent. Many of his own experiences have

influenced him in writing some of his novels. For instance, by serving

as a physician in the Boer War, he was able to write The Great Boer

War in 1900. Two years later he wrote The War in South Africa: Its

Causes and Conduct. In the same year, The Hound of the Baskervilles

was created. It was at this time that Doyle abandoned his medical

practise to devote his time to writing. In respect of the novel,

Doyle's medical background, to add with being an advocate of

Spiritualism since the late 1880s, can be seen as being used in The

Hound of the Baskervilles. Doyle himself could be seen as Dr James

Mortimer, the open-minded doctor who does put aside what cannot be

proven by scientific reason.

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... and mystery,

the end of reality the beginning of fantasy.

In final conclusion, The Hound of the Baskervilles can be seen as one

of the greatest detective novels of all time. The book belongs to a

series of mysteries born for the character of Mr Sherlock Holmes, one

who is known all over the world. The character made Doyle

internationally famous and formed the foundation of the detective

story genre. Everything needed for of detective story, and more, is

included in this book. The suspects, the motifs, the range of elements

that add to the excitement of the novel, the red herrings which are

always able to pull you away from the truth, the cliff-hangers that

leave you begging for more, and the ingenious way they're nearly

always making you wait until the very end to find out the identity of

the real culprit.