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Happy anniversary: the hound of the baskervilles

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From: The Sunday Herald
Date: 20020303
Author:James Scott

It's one hundred years since Arthur Conan Doyle resurrected his hero Sherlock Holmes for the spine-chilling The Hound Of The Baskervilles. James Scott investigates the origins of a classic NOT since Dickens decreed the death of Little Nell had the reading public felt so bereft. When Arthur Conan Doyle sent Sherlock Holmes to his demise at the Reichenbach Falls in 1893 a nation united in mourning. Holmes, who made his first appearance in print in 1887 in A Study In Scarlet, Doyle's first book, was as popular in his day as Harry Potter. But Doyle viewed his creation with ambivalence. The ...

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