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 detectives 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 devils agents may be of flesh and blood,

may they not? There are two questions waiting
for us at the outset Of course, if Dr.
Mortimers 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 well shut that window again, if you
dont 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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