gregsaysstuff 's review for:

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

4.0

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The thing I like about Sherlock Holmes, and this one in particular, is that right in the story itself, Holmes advises Watson not to try to do any solving while he's on location, just to collect facts. That's probably the best approach to this story from a reader's perspective, too. A couple of crucial details were things that nobody reading the book would pick up on, like the presence of perfume in a letter. Accordingly, the narration does nothing to point you anywhere in particular, but the pieces all fall together very nicely in the end, which is all you could really ask for in a mystery. It took all the hard work out of trying to solve a mystery novel before the detectives do, and I give Doyle posthumous props for that.