The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Chapter 1 Mr. Sherlock Holmes

Chapter 2 The Curse of the Baskervilles

Chapter 3 The Problem

Chapter 4 Sir Henry Baskerville

Chapter 5 Three Broken Threads

Chapter 6 Baskerville Hall

“There is as much difference to my eyes between the leaded bourgeois type of a Times article and the slovenly print of an evening half-penny paper… The detection of types is one of the most elementary branches of knowledge to the special expert in crime” (loc. 1329).

From Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction “Another standard in detective fiction calls for a guiding principle of investigation to which the detective allies himself. Sherlock Holmes provides the prototype for the British ratiocinative detective’s approach. His deductive style of reasoning follows the belief that “once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.” (Delamater).

From Doyle “Holmes demonstrates his powers of observation and analytical skill...proceeds to explain as simply routine results of methodical looking and thinking.” (Panek).

“The circumstances connected with the death of Sir Charles cannot be said to have been entirely cleared up by the inquest, but at least enough has been done to dispose of those rumors to which local superstition has given rise… ‘I must thank you,’ said Sherlock Holmes, ‘for calling my attention to a case which certain presents some features of interest’” (loc. 1038, 1076).

From The Different Story “Third, the mystery is no ordinary problem but a complex secret that appears impossible of solution” (Dove).

From Doyle “At the time I first thought of a detective...I had been reading detective stories, and it struck me what nonsense they were, to put it mildly, because for getting to the solution of the mystery, the authors always depended on some coincidence. This struck me as not a fair way of playing the game, because the detective ought really to depend for his successes on something in his own mind and not on merely adventitious circumstances which do not, by any means, always occur in real life” (Panek).

“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not “The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? There are two questions waiting for us at the outset… Of course, if Dr. Mortimer’s surmise should be correct, and we are dealing with forces outside the ordinary laws of Nature, there is an end of our investigation. But we are bound to exhaust all other hypothesis before falling back upon this one. I think we’ll shut that window again, if you don’t mind” (loc. 1253).

From Fin-de-Siecle Gothic “The myth of the scientific detective was born. [Y]ou have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world" (36), an admiring Watson tells the Great Detective. "Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science” (Clausson 61)

From Beginnings “Mainline gothic novels also find resolution for all of the scary shenanigans of the plot in some sort of supernatural conclusion… Developing concurrently with the regular detective story is the detective story with gothic additions, or the gothic with detective additions.” (Panek).

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