巴斯克维尔猎犬【英文】

Background
Doyle was initially a struggling young doctor who spent his hours unfilled with patients creating the character of Sherlock Holmes. His first Holmes story was published in 1887. Holmes grew in popularity, and Doyle grew tired of him.

The resurrection
Doyle was forced to resurrect Holmes. The Hound of the Baskervilles was the first story published after Holmes’ supposed death. Despite being published afterwards, Doyle set the novel as prior to Holmes’ death so that he could avoid resurrecting the character. At the release of this story, The Strand’’s readership grew by 30,000 subscriptions instantly.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
In 1891, Doyle published six Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in Strand magazine. Six more appeared the next year. The stories are also owed in part to Edgar Allan Poe, who is credited as having created the detective tale. In fact, his stories are considered “prequels” to Doyle’s stories. http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=hist oricalfigures&bcpid=1740031454&bclid=177283 4530&bctid=1726714856
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Inspiration for the detective
The ideas for Holmes’ unique detective skills were based in-part on one of Doyle’s professors from the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Joseph Bell. Bell could draw medical conclusions about his patients simply from observing the mud on his shoes.

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closed setting like an isolated house or train A corpse A small group of people who are all suspects An investigating detective with extraordinary reasoning powers

Sherlock Holmes’ demise
In 1893, Doyle published The Final Problem. In this installment, Holmes’ arch enemy, Professor Moriarty, sends him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls. People were so outraged over his death that newspapers actually ran an obituary. People placed flowers on the streets of London.

Inspiration for this novel
Black Shuck and the Whisht Hounds are spectral, demon dogs from British folklore. These ghostly dogs were the inspiration for The Hound of the Baskervilles. The origin of these legends springs from Norse (Viking) mythology. They are derived from tales of the black Hound of Odin.

Doyle’s mystery novel
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is known as the “father of the Golden Age of mystery.” His novels followed a usually predictable pattern including the following:
Complications
As are common in the rising action of most novels, Doyle’s stories are full of complications. As the story progresses, the reader learns that nearly all the suspects had the means and the motive. Clues accumulate and are often revealed to the reader through a narrator like Watson, Holmes’ trusty sidekick.