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Arthur Conan Doyle

1859–1930

Arthur Conan Doyle's pages are full of fog, gaslight and small details that turn out to matter: a doctor's kind notes, a detective's cold eye, a client climbing the stairs with a problem that seems impossible. Start with «The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes», the twelve-story collection where the cases are short and the method is plain to watch, or «The Hound of the Baskervilles» if you want one long, eerie mystery set on Dartmoor, with a legend pressing on every page.

Feels like curiosity, dread and morality.

Start with The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Doyle hoped history would remember his historical novels; he was knighted in 1902 for defending Britain's role in the Boer War, not for Holmes.

A servant stands at a dark window, watching for something he won't name.

Barrymore was crouching at the window with the candle held against the glass. His profile was half turned towards me, and his face seemed to be rigid with expectation as he stared out into the blackness of the moor. For some minutes he stood watching intently. Then he gave a deep groan and with an impatient gesture he put out the light. Instantly I made my way back to my room, and very shortly came the stealthy steps passing once more upon their return journey. Long afterwards when I had fallen into a light sleep I heard a key turn somewhere in a lock, but I could not tell whence the sound came. What it all means I cannot guess, but there is some secret business going on in this house of gloom which sooner or later we shall get to the bottom of.
— The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)

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