buffalomj 's review for:

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

3.0

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I had been looking forward to getting to Hound of the Baskervilles since it’s the book in the series I had known the most about as a kid. I am grateful for a novel-length story, since the short story compilations were getting tedious to read, but I think that I’ve grown past the style that ACD uses. The passive narrative and sporadic use of epistolary text saps some of the urgency, even while thoughts of faming hellhounds bounding across the moor remain one of the most iconic images in literature. I still prefer A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, but Baskerville is definitely a top three contender for Holmes.