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Publication of The Hound of the Baskervilles: March 25th, 1902. (Months Past).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

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From: History Today
Date: 20020301
Author:Cavendish, Richard

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE sent Sherlock Holmes to his death at the Reichenbach Falls in 1893 because he did not want to be known for ever as `the Holmes man'. The public demand for more Holmes stories, however, and the fact that there was patently much more money to be made out of him eventually proved irresistible. The tale of the great detective's Dartmoor adventure, which its author described as `the inevitable relapse after repentance' and which became perhaps the best-known in the whole Holmes canon, first appeared in monthly instalments in the Strand Magazine between August 1901 ...

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