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Country
  
France

Published in English
  
November, 2008

Author
  
Pierre Bayard

Page count
  
208

Translator
  
Charlotte Mandell

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Language
  
French

Pages
  
208

Copyright date
  
2008

Genre
  
Literary criticism

Published in english
  
November 2008

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Original title
  
L'affaire du Chien des Baskerville

Publisher
  
Bloomsbury USA (English translation)

Similar
  
Pierre Bayard books, Arthur Conan Doyle books

Sherlock holmes was wrong


Sherlock Holmes was Wrong: Re-opening the Case of the "Hound of the Baskervilles" is a 2007 book by French professor of literature, psychoanalyst, and author Pierre Bayard.

Contents

By re-examining the clues and interpreting them in the context in which Arthur Conan Doyle's book The Hound of the Baskervilles was conceived and written, Bayard clears the hound of all wrongdoing and argues that the actual murderer got away with the crime completely unsuspected by Sherlock Holmes—not to mention by the numerous readers of the story over the past century and even, in a sense, by the author himself.

The book was originally written in French.

Critical reception

The University of Illinois' The Online Gargoyle wrote in its review that the premise of the book "is original, but it is annoying in its uncreative, hole-poking nature."

References

Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong Wikipedia