''Sherlock Holmes was Wrong: Re-opening the Case of the "Hound of the Baskervilles"'' is a 2007 book by

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professor of literature,

psychoanalyst PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: + . is a set of Theory, theories and Therapy, therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a bo ...

, and author

Pierre Bayard Pierre Bayard (born 1954) is currently professor of Literature at the University of Paris 8 and psychoanalyst. He is the author of many creative essays such as ''Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?'' (2002), ''How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read'' (2 ...

. By re-examining the clues and interpreting them in the context in which

Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...

's book ''

The Hound of the Baskervilles ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in ''The Strand Magazine'' from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set i ...

'' 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 Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...

—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

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' ''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."Book Review: Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles , Online Gargoyle

References

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