Book Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
As a boy in England, Arthur Conan Doyle enjoyed reading detective stories. But once he was working his way through medical school, he did not have much time for writing.
However, in 1886, as the twenty-seven-year-old Dr Doyle sat in his new office hoping for patients, he decided to try writing a detective story. And so, Mr Sherlock Holmes was born.
Over the years, Doyle himself came to be recognized as an expert on crime. He solved many real-life criminal cases and proved the innocence of men who had been imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.
He interrupted his wrting career to serve as a doctor with the British Army during the Boer War in Africa. Afterwards, he had to fight the war. For these efforts, Doyle was knighted by King Edward VII and he became Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
During a visit to the moor country in western England, Doyle became so interested in a lengend about a hound, that he used it as a plot for a new book. This book became the greatest of all Holmes’ adventures, The Hound of the Baskervilles.

This story starts with a superstitious curse which a hound preyed on the family of the Baskervilles. Sherlock Holmes, a famous detective, was hired to solve this complex mystery by Dr Mortimer, Sir Charles’s doctor. Sir Charles was the head of the Baskerville family until he died a mysterious death three months before that, leaving his nephew, Sir Henry, as the last Baskerville left. Everyone thought it was because if the family curse and no one was to blame. It was later found out that Sir Charles’s brother had a son, this birth of his son was unknown and unannounced. The son was an evil man called Stapleton who was eyeing on the wealth of the Baskervilles and so, he decided to hunt down all the Baskervilles and he would inherit the large fortune.
Sherlock Holmes outsmarted Stapleton and thwarted his evil plans at the end of the story. The author has inspired readers like me and after reading this book, I have discovered detective stories were my cup of tea. Readers will never put down the book until they find out the how the mystery was solved at the end.